13 JANUARY 1939, page 18

National Farming That Famous Veteran In Scientific...

Hall, who has held the post of adviser to the Ministry, has been urging (in The Countryman) a scheme for agricultural regeneration that might attract the votes both of all......

Games On Commons Disputes On Common Rights Tend To Multiply

since the Ecclesiastical Commissioners took to selling their manorial rights. The rapid increase of building has in many places put the villagers proper in a minority ; and the......

Inland Gulls

If the inroad of larks into towns is a new phenomenon so is the presence of gulls far inland. Stray gulls always were to be seen inland in or before foul weather ; but this......

Neglected Trees

Many of our new roads are beautified, so far as such a black ribbon can be beautified, by lines of trees that have been carefully selected and well planted ; but there are some......

In The Garden The Garden Seems To Be At Its

idlest moment during January and February ; but there are some things that are best done then and some that can only be done then with any profit. One of these latter duties is......

* * * * A London Orchard The Regent's Park,

that is famous for its Zoo, becomes also famous as a sort of pocket metropolis of English gardening. To Queen Mary's roses and to the herbaceous garden, where we may all study......

Country Life

Clever Birds The delightful saying of Professor Thompson that birds could be much cleverer if they had to be, has been well illus- trated during the recent frosts. For example :......