Country Life
Protect the Woodcock February brings in the close season, which ought to be closer than it is. The other day in a little wood just eleven miles north of Charing Cross twelve......
The Sussex Lead Other Counties Have More Than Once Been
urged to follow the example of Sussex and produce a County Magazine. The idea has been discussed widely, and among the latest counties to follow suit is Gloucestershire. The......
Cook-gardeners
It used to be said by a countryman that the ideal servant would be a "cook-gardener.". You cannot know all about a vegetable till you have seen it from seed-bed to table. What......
In The Garden Last Year, Being A Little Puzzled By
two bushes in the garden, both called the "tea-plant," I wrote to Kew for enlightenment. Last month these same two plants have inspired a number of inquiry letters to The Times.......
Slype And Slad A Reference To The Two Old English
words slype and slad or slade (and to the inadequacy of the dictionaries) has elicited the fact that the words are fairly widely spread. There are two villages, at any rate—one......
Park And Sanctuary The Friends Of The Lake District Are
trying very hard to get the whole district made into a National Park. A supporter writes : "Personally I know of no better place for this purpose. About 130 years ago the Golden......
A Village Crew On A Recent Saturday Afternoon An A.r.p.
Warden, going about the outskirts of a village to deliver cardboard boxes for gas-masks, was approached by two small girls, who asked if they could be of any use. They......
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