Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-12
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CIldIfScS i
 What is happening to the enormous crop of English app1es?
 In some. of the apple growing dis triets it is said that the cost of car riage and commission does not permit of the fruit being sent to market. There seems to be an opportunity for the possibility of extend ing the methods of desiceati9n, which have proved so Ibeneficial in. some countries. S.r. .s.a e to be getting. good English apples at low prices. .-4
 Our note on feather pictures recalls to q correspondent. i. a form of artistic activity current in- Fanny Burney's day. It was originated by her great friend, Mrs. Delaney, and is described ino Miss Burney's diary. .
 The pictures were of birds and flowers, built up by, the process of cutting out from colored paper the leaves of flowers or the feathers of birds. In the case of birds the plum age was built up by So many layers that the form and substance of the bird appear in bold relief, The plum mage of certain birds represents an intinity of patience in cutting the feathers. Many specimens of this work are at the British Museum.
 The beautiful art of painting pie lures by working real feathers into suitable background has reached to great heights in the short. space of we saw yesterday At the Central hall Westminster included birds and flow CTS instinct with life. from a kingly owl on . lacqnered tray to modest xipiet ar. match boxs
 In the same hall We also saw some exquisite specimens of Elsie Hoskfn's Cornish coast scenes in needlework, so realistic that we almost stepped back to dodge tho spray. The problem for many artistic 'hausslicieers will soon De; Where to eto1:e the Old Masters.
 Here and tfere sims os christm7s rre to be seen in the London shops and streets. The weather has done it's best t0 put LIS all in 3 Christmas rood. with it's heavy night frosts, fiurries of snow, and occasional hail showers. .'--'s..' -.sss--.
 In the shops the Ghristu.as buildings are lying in festive dumps" the light CT coHestib!es are decked out with | holly sprigs and spansles, |, and the trays Of calendars | and Christmas cards are already being searched for suitable eopverirS by early shoppers To the bookstalis is gradually being ! iinparted q gay and lively ISaieido scope of color from the annuals and their supplements. ...'...>
 A story of notable sagaeity and self sacrifice comes fror1 member of the Overseas club living in Buenos | Ayres.
 "We have," he writes, ..ea narrow garden rlnning parallel to, 8 similar l strip belonging to an Argentine fam ] fly. These people, in barbarous fashion, had collie watch dog con tinually. ellhineH4@to his kenne1ss tht chain, being long enough for him t move few feet on either side.
 ''one pouring wet evening, cold ant penetrating, a female dog found hel way in from the street, and eEidentl. begged. shelter from the collie, for h1 was found in the morning, outside hi
 kennel half dead from cold and wet while the new comer.' an entire strang
 CT, was comfortably, installed insid
 the kennel with five newly born. pup pies.
 "The poor collie never recovere,
 from the exposure, but died shortl
 afterwards with rheumatic fever"
 A Bournemouth gardner writes:
 1 think the visit of the golden crest
 ed wren is not so rare 1particularly i
 the country districts) as your cores pendent suggests. I saw one on. tn
 third of this month in Bournemoutl while. during my 50 years fgardenin I have occasionally seen an odd one 6 almost any season of the year.
 A few years ago, I saw more tha
 one nest of this variety of wren i , Sussexy An elegantly -censtrl1cted ne. I suspended hammock like by .cebwe : threads, under branches of old .ye q trees ------' ---- '-'--- -'''-
 !. With reference 4o your interestir
 article on the golden crested wre I says another Writer, found ih, the hea s of the acity,s and the, mention of kinghsher having flown into De Ke. s ser's hotel. it may be of interest your readers to know that "a crestt
 cardinal an unusual South Americs
 bird, once flew >on to the bairony e this same hotel. It was. enticed in n room with crumbs and subsequen s Fly captured, very hungry and col |, and in my possession. < 5rf T
 It is not surprissins that speeire
 of the large. copper butterfly averag
 pound apiece at the sale at Stever 2 Auction rooms. It is extinct now, D $ little more than 6 century ago < n swarDed in the unreclained fens ls Lincolnshire and 6anlbridgeshire.
 It was; a peculiarly British type a . was believed not to be found oaltsi ,r these islands. British collectors, tfler = fore, valued it highly and their zt E in collecting specimens of the beau ln ful insect contrihuted largely to ol extinction, though this was nndoul
 edly helped by the prevale1ts custc M tcianlatIon. ". s h. # it were not for H1usepins and | ,t much -ahused "collector," writes a .cs ss respondent, very few of the finest ss amples of the violin makers ? a- would have survived to the press ldsy.., Though t Is true that | good