17 MARCH 1939, page 18

Country Life

National Parks Before me lies a copy of the nine-months'-old Case For National Parks in Great Britain, issued, for twopence, by the Standing Committee for National Parks, 4......

In The Garden In The Past We Were Inclined To

scorn the half-hardy annual. We felt above the tradition which planted out stocks and asters, calceolarias and antirrhinums, verbenas and petunias. Then we met an alpine......

Other Reforms

What is also needed is a reform which will give the Parish Council itself more direct powers. The common cry of villagers, " What is the Parish Council doing?—nothing! " has,......

The Parish Council Electoral Farce

The present method by which Parish Councils are elected is one which has troubled rural reformers for a long time. In particular, the Councils of Social Service and the......

The Paradoxical Farmer

As a class farmers resemble sailors. The same struggle against the weather and a single incalculable element makes them fatalists. They are invariably hard-headed and super-......

Prejudice Or Indifference?

What is the prejudice against National Parks in Great Britain? For clearly there must be a prejudice, or merely perhaps an apathetic stupidity, when we lag so .far behind other......