15 OCTOBER 1927, page 13

Springlike Autumn.

Some may feel that autumn is a melancholy time. The garden consists largely of dead stalks, dirty leaves litter the lawns, only weeds luxuriantly flourish. Autumn has this......

More Trees.

Incidentally, last week I suggested that many of the derelict lands might be afforested with deciduous trees, especially ash and sycamore. A few days after that was written I......

Some Of The Specialists Have Been Urging The Virtues Of

a .Canadian poplar that grows at a speed which is the despair Cs - en of the annual hawkWeed. It is doubtless a more solid pleasure to watch your trees growing rapidly into......

Country Life

Estrin?* FAILMS. SINCE I wrote on the subject last week a number' of the smaller local papers have published news about the difficulty of letting farms. In one district where......

We Are So Fond Of Abusing Our Climate That We

have com- pletely hidden—at any rate from the poets—the delicious advantages of an English autumn. Our grain crops bear more heavily than those, say, of Northern Canada solely......

In One Amateur Experiment Almost Every Tree Has Been...

out of life except the Japanese larches. They survived because they grew fast enough in the first year to raise their heads above the inferior tangle. Some foresters object to......

Bumble Or Humble ?

A very notable little pamphlet has just been written on red clover by those two careful botanists, Mr. Martin Sutton and Mr. Columbus Jones. It is interesting for some details......