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Arthur Beadell, Raymond Clarke : 70 years of Nature Notes in Warlington & Chelsham

Raymond Clarke

Arthur Beadell's Notes on Flowers Re-issued & Updates by Raymond Clarke. Two local Naturalists & their flowers. Ringbound soft covers, slightly marked, PAGES clean and flat. Book Extract; Having found beauty we stayed with it. Fifty years was not long enoughto exhaust the pursuit of it. But there comes a time when the JubileeJust about to be celebrated says to the botanist and tlie walker 'Takethe pen, write while you are still sensitised to East Surrey. Write sothat your inveterate recording may hoist itself into something of ai sharing - a sharing of the experiences of the famous Chalk and even moreof the despised Clay. You've lived on the Clay with Flints - now let'scelebrate what grows and sings on it. Anyone can be calcareous, l»itit's easy to forget the fertility of the Clay and remember mostly it*stickiness.In the Weald the Clay is felt to be great; what is it here at Warlinghaiand Chelsham? Fields and gardens of it, with perennial, retentive weedsthat escape poison and get recorded.Near where I write an old Brickfield 'relic' covers itself with unexpectedroses among fescue grasses and even Field Scabious - with, of course,Birdsfoot Trefoil. Adjacent is an unimproved pasture with a shrubbyTutaan. This is Warlingham as much as the triangular Common andButterfly Walk. To find Chelsham the naturalist takes to heavy woodlandand curvaceous lanes, but he should not overlook Forge Pond and its b'aterCrowfoot, if only as an instance of sensible conservation under a 1'arishCouncil determined to prove they are of Surrey not London., 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, Good

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