16 JUNE 1933, page 12

• On The Subject Of Sanctuaries The Annual Report Of

the Committee on Wild Bird Protection in Norfolk (issued some little time ago and procurable from Dr. . Long, Surrey Street, Norwich) contains one of the best accounts of local......

Country Life

' LAND IN TRUST. I was asked-the other day whether the National Trust would be glad to have • a certain grove and valley (where buzzards and ravens nest) bequeathed to them at......

One Of The Chief Reasons Why Braunton Burrows Should Be

nationally or semi-nationally owned is that it is the only home in Britain of certain plants, lowly plants but of peculiar value to the scientific botanist ; and I should think......

A Domestic Beetle.

Householders may like to know of the extreme punctuality of one of the least popular of domestic insects, the wood and wicker boring beetle, known to science as anobium......

Plants Are Easily Destroyed. As A Rule The Golf Club

tends to preserve - rather than destroy ; but it is apt to suffer from a fatal tidiness. I knew exactly one place in North Devon where the bee-orchis grew ; and grew in......

Braunton Has Been Very Expertly Surveyed By Private...

the last generation ; and incidentally is the subject of the very best local guide to natural history that I have ever come upon. If anyone doubts the except- ional value of the......

The E.m.b.

The Empire Marketing Board, which has just , published its yearly report, has also issued a revised pamphlet giving the addresses of British bulb growers and diStributors, in......

A Desired Sanctuary.

There is one bit of England beyond all others that, for myself, I should like to see in the hands of the Trust at once. • It - is unique, in the strict sense of that ill-used......