1 OCTOBER 1937, page 17

Country Life

Too Popular Pheasants I cannot but think that the pheasant, which may be legally killed this week, is attaining a popularity that does some harm to British sport. It is now......

A Waxwing Card •

For several years the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust has increased its funds for making and preserving bird sanctuaries by the issue of a Christmas card, showing some beautiful and......

A Textbook Fallacy It Is Not Always Wise On The

part of the amateur gardener to obey with any slavishness expert advice, for example in the date of transplanting. With regard to most trees and bushes the textbooks will advise......

More Horses

The Oxford agriculturists have been concerning themselves with the prospects of the English horse. About fourteen yzars ago it seemed to be a disappearing fauna. The numbers of......

A Single Migrant A Ship Coming Up The Thames Estuary

last week was boarded by a wheatear, which stayed for some while on board. This wagtail-like bird, which is one of the first to come in spring, enjoys a very desultory autumn......

English Bulbs

Naturalisation bulbs, so called, are now to be obtained from a number of English growers, in Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire ; and on the whole these growers, who started......

Planting Time From 'all Sides, Including Broadcasting...

being advised to plant bulbs now. The question about which little is said is : " Where ? " The bulb does not on the whole agree very well with other plants. Many a gardener......