12 SEPTEMBER 1935, page 16

Country Life

Norwich Naturalists The counties and shires of England have their intellectual as well as their scenic differences. The distinction of Norfolk has long been the number of'......

An Individual Community

A correspondent recently wrote to ask what place the ant held in the economy of nature. What a number of answers, not all serious, could be given. They provide the favourite......

The Place Of The Ant An Estate, Famous Since The

days of Elizabeth, was sold two years ago to a Government Department, who bought it (strangely enough, not for preservation, but as an investment, 'a land deal). The estate,......

Early Apples The Private Gardener As Well As The Commercial

grower is always seeking for the best apple of the early autumn. Having made the search with others and having planted a new orchard, of which the first-fruits are now being......

Birds And Insects An Interesting Point In The Dietetics Of

birds, even in the general economy of nature, is raised by Lord Tavistock, who has a peculiar knowledge of spiders and certain insects. The secretary of the Selborne Society has......

Odd Migrants

Norfolk itself has recently been the scene of some move- ments, quite new to experience. The strangest perhaps was the arrival on the coast, in a spell of hard winter weather,......

Wild Harvests The Two, Almost The Only Two, Surviving Wild

harvests are in full swing ; and blackberry and mushroom-piekers go forth from every village in numbers. The mushroom keeps its value ; and the wild agaricus cavnpestris (which......