21 NOVEMBER 1931, page 44

The Value Of Sanctuary.

The year has given notable evidence of the cumulative effect of sanctuaries in attracting birds and of keeping them. Not only have a number of rarities been recorded, but some......

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EARLY FOODS. Discussion on the imports of food into Britain has brought out some queer fashions in food, especially the overmastering desire for earliness among British'......

Country Life

COUNTRY COTTAGES. We may expect with some confidence to see real practical results from this week's Roads and Transport Congress, organized by the energetic secretary of the......

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Many readers of the Spectator have shown a practical interest in Alderfen, that altogether adorable Broad like no other, which was secured last year by the......

* * * Defying The Seasons.

Perhaps the English grower has at last found a potent ally or two potent allies. No business connected with food has gone ahead with quite such speed as the canning of fruit and......

In Certain Businesses It Is Of Advantage To The English

producer that earlier countries should send in their goods. Beyond all question, as Mr. Seabrook and other specialists have insisted, the steady continuous supply of fruit all......

Again The Glass House, Such As That Of The Lea

Valley pattern, is in some regards very much superior to the frame and cloche and hotbed of the French and Dutch maraichers, which succeed (as Prince Kropotkin, that great......