FLOWERS IN THE BATTLE COUNTRY.
Nature lovers have an eye for her wherever they may be, even on the battlefield. G. G. Desmond informs the readers of the London "Daily News" and "Leader" that he saw "a caterpillar on a battlefield," which does not sound so very remarkable until one knows that there was not a speck of green within a mile of tho creature. Wiiting in May, Mr Desmond is surprised not to find more wild flowers in his particular spot "somewhere in France," because, he says, it is not unlike Surrey, round Caterham cr Whyteleaf. He can find no primroses, but, at any rate, there are wild violets, for he describes the contrast of children coming-out of a wood with large bunches of them, to the noise of the guns two or three miles away, and of the aeroplanes fighting overhead. Wood anemones, periwinkle,- bluebells, and coltsfoot, are the othe r wild flowers which he saw blooming in May.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12085, 14 August 1917, Page 8
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