25 DECEMBER 1926, page 12

* * The Abbot And The Farmer.

Theorists on agriculture are continually laying emphasis on the need of scientific education. Perhaps they hardly realize how very great the advance in this direction has been.......

A Sheaf Of Queries Has Reached Me About The Healing

of a certain great tulip tree that seemed to be suffering fro m anaemia and old age, but was cured .by a specialist. All these correspondents wish to be put in touch with the......

Country Life And Sport Preserving English Scenery.

Within a very short while one of the English counties will take definite action to conserve its own beauties from desecra- tion by ugly and ill-placed buildings. That pioneer is......

The. Holly Cult.

- Within one . day this month six van loads of berried holly passed through : one small village in Hertfordshire. Poor Hertfordshire,. where no holly _tree, even on private......

For The First Time In The Memories Of Many Of

us swallows and martins have still been with us while the later winter visitors were arriving. Both birds were seen in several counties during the second week of December. The......

Next Week

An important article by Mr. Murray Allison on Advertising the League of Nations.......