Two friends of mine, very different ages and backgrounds, have shared the same spring ritual with me. They eat the first beech leaves to unfold in spring. I had never actually noticed, until they ...

If oak is the hail-fellow king of the English wood, beech is the ice queen. Oak is one trope for England, hearty, rustic and guileless; the smooth-boled beech is the alternative Albion, the ...

IT is so characteristic of the science of to-day to find specialists narrowing their field of research, and confining their investigations to a deep narrow channel, that no surprise can be felt that ...