17 FEBRUARY 1939, page 19

Empty Schools

The problem of the empty school is also one which hundreds of small villages are now facing. Many children have been taken to schools in larger towns. How soon before an inter-......

Crisis And Country Cottages The September Crisis Had...

on country life which still persists ; it has been responsible for something like a racket in the business of country cottages. Throughout the autumn friends one had not seen......

A Superb Annual Gardeners Looking For An Annual Which Will

bloom for six months should remember Phlox Drummondi. Where the nemesia, for example, flowers almost as soon as pricked out and is over within a month in dry weather, Drummondi......

An Example

The village in which these notes are being written has a population of 230 adults and children ; it is really three ham- lets in one. It has a church, one pub. and one shop, a......

In The Garden Iris Stylosa, Which Began So Bravely In

November, has not shown a finger since; the lemon of aconites has revived after weeks of rain. But already there are other compensa- tions : splashes of primula wanda, grey-pink......

Country Life A.r.p. In Country Life

Four strong influences have been felt in village life since the War : the decline of the big house, the decline of the church, the influx of townspeople seeking something in the......