25 OCTOBER 1935, page 17

• * The Snuggest Sanctuary

• All the world knows the name of some of the Norfolk sanc- tuaries—of Scolt Head that almost island," where Miss Turner made more fame than . she , desired as " the lonely......

A Partridge Maraicher It Has Always Been Laid Down That

the partridge is a bird belonging to high cultivation. The better the farming, the more numerous . the , partridges, is a very old maxim. A new and unexpected addition to this......

A Christmas Woodpecker

A very beautiful little picture has been especially painted by Mr. Harrison, that most perfect portrait painter of birds, as a Christmas card for the Norfolk .Naturalists'......

Country Life

Farm Substitutes The expert committee collected and presided over by Lord Astor, in association with Mr. Rowntree, has come down like a ton of bricks on the theory that you may......

• * Winds In The Orchard

. The heavy ' gales have done much less damage to trees than might have been expected ; but where older and larger trees have . ridden the tempest out with little' loss, some of......

An Old Industrialist Of My Acquaintance Retired To A Country

h ouse, well tee'd up oit a hill. During a long illness he amused h imself by getting his doctor to put a flag into an Ordnance 'Ll'inp at every point where he had a patient.......

Benighted Birds

Birds have suffered, as well as trees ; and some rare sea birds have been seen for the first time far inland ; but light- house keepers (who see more of migrant birds than other......