14 JUNE 1946, page 24

Commercial Gardens

Accounts have reached me lately of the almost startling success of country-house gardeners who have been persuaded almost of necessity —to put their walls and beds to commercial......

Country Life

EVEN before the plans are being put into active operation it becomes evident that the urban planners of rural development, so called, will have to acknowledge the country knows......

Dwindled Villages In Many Counties Villages Have Been...

years. The popula- tion of Hertfordshire, for example, has been falling for at least a century. A village very familiar to me in Huntingdonshire, which is only sixty miles from......

In My Garden Those Gardeners—i Hope They Are Many—'who...

their -plants with their bees, should .all grow Cotoneaster -Horizontalis. My bees, and those of some neighbours, show a marked passion for the floviers, even to the point of......

Early Birds , .

The question is raised—in a local paper in Wiltshire: Which is the earliest bird to sing? My experience is the lark. To be " Up with lark " is to be up before sunrise. The birds......