17 DECEMBER 1937, page 16

Country Life'

The Tally of Trees The royal book on Coronation planting, which is to be published early next year, will surprise most people by its scope. The total of trees and flowering......

Miner Farmers A Film Of The Admirable " Subsistence...

" scheme, flourishing in " the Valleys," was shown last week to the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace. I happened to be staying for a night with an out-of-work Glamorganshire......

Sham Woodcock

Perhaps the waders also are particularly numerous. The suggestion is an inference from a particular example. The other day in a little township passers-by were invited to buy......

British Christmas Trees Many Of Us Regret The Excessive...

of Conifers, by the Afforestation Commission and others, to the exclusion of the harder woods. The New Forest and the Lakes have suffered ; and there are grim plantations of......

Voice Or Wood A Large Number Of Correspondents Have Sent

their views on the controversy about the spotted woodpecker. The more or less novel view is that the drumming is not made by the beak but by the syrinx, chiefly on the ground......

Weatherwise Felts " We Are Going To Have More Hard

weather, the felts are in such numbers," someone said to me the other day. 'I he " felts " of course, as I realised only after an interval, are the fieldfares, sometimes also......

The Waxwing Card

It is pleasant news that the succession of sanctuaries in Norfolk (mostly on the coast but one inland), will benefit greatly by the sale of this year's Christmas card published......