22 AUGUST 1931, page 14

Country Life

THE PETROL DRAGON. That covey of monsters, with the heads and necks of highly- coloured dragons, which we call petrol stations, are being attacked by an able and successful......

Even Root Crops And Potatoes And Hops Are Suffering From

excess of rain. In all these as with grasses, clovers and grains growth has been beyond the normal, perhaps beyond remembered precedent on our lighter soils. But, after all, the......

Bombarded Crops.

The bombardment of all our fields by wind and rain and hail of scarcely paralleled continuance or severity is all the worse because of the intrinsic excellence of the crops. In......

Commercial Firms Are Giving Both Negative And Positive...

of course, are sensitive to any interference with the freedom of advertisement. There are goods, it seems, for which hoardings in villages are necessary for the coping of the......

We Have Reached The Crisis. The Winter Oats Have Been

reaped and stand in stook in order—how sarcastic a hope !— to dry and mature. Though all crops, especially the spring- sown are late, the bulk of the grain is now approaching......

Tricolour Flowers.

The choice of flowers may have peculiar appropriateness. A certain colonel, who was also a fine classical scholar, showed me during the War a very beautiful little verse that he......

Faithful Birds.

Some correspondence has been published on the fidelity of birds to particular nesting sites ; and I suppose every owner of a garden can quote examples from his own experience. I......