12 NOVEMBER 1927, page 12

St. Martin.

St. Martin's summer, which dates symbolically from Armistice Day, will be adorned with more flowers than in any year within recent memory. Among the many surprising blooms none......

Country Life

C.P.R.E. PaounFss. Real progress of the right sort has-been made by- the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. One may say that the movement begins to take on an......

Where Nestlings Flourish.

An odd experiment in promoting the health of nestling birds has met with such surprising success in the case of partridges on one estate that I hardly like to give the figures.......

A Compliment To Hampshire.

Among the more hideous objects that deface the verges of our roads are—as we all confess—the petrol pumps and stations. Most are unblushingly hideous and often a cause of......

Much Is Likely To Be Heard In The Near Future

about a number of successes already to the credit of the C.P.R.E., which represents over a score of the societies founded for the preser- vation of this and that British......

A Curious Difficulty Is Now Confronting The Town-planners...

newly industrial districts of Kent. A delightfully designed mining town, begun two years ago in the neighbour- hood of a new Kent coalmine, has grown rapidly and according to......

Nightingale Migrants.

Some singularly absurd theories have been uttered in -reference to the English nightingales recently exported to New Zealand (as others at an earlier date were sent to America).......

No English Bacon.

The following letter reaches me from a distinguished soldier who has just retired from Indian service to a country house in the Eastern counties. His questions are worth the......