: ' Out of Doors from Week to Week—VII, Midsummer Day '
NEXT Sunday is Midsummer Day, which, though very often it comes long before the middle of our English summer (and it is certainly to be hoped that we have not yet had half our summer this year), yet definitely marks the turn of the year. This afternoon Mr. Eric Parker will describe how the blossom turns into fruit, how new flowers come in the garden, and how bird song ceases, and we say good-bye to the cuckoo.