28 DECEMBER 1934, page 15

Country Life

A Crisis in Preservation That expert and invaluable body known as the C.P.R.E., the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, has reached a crucial point in its......

County Histories Our Counties, Especially I Think The...

London, are becoming more county conscious as their individual qualities are more seriously threatened. Within a week I have seen three books on Hertfordshire and......

Ryedale

Preservation is very much in the air ; and the preservers are coming to the common conclusion that the first step must be a survey. All the surveys inspired by the C.P.R.E. are......

For Information About The Migration Of The Blackbird,...

people regard as a home dweller. The facts should be easily discoverable, since the blackbird is one of the chief favourites of the bird-ringers organized by Mr. Witherby, from......

Hertfordshire And Buckinghamshire The Remaining...

Berk- hampstead Common, by G. H. Whybrow (the Commons, Open Spaces and Footpaths Society) deserves the emphasis put upon it by Professor G. M. Trevelyan in his brief preface. If......

Sweet-scented December A Little Wild Flower, Now So Sweet...

a head or two of it will scent a room, is too much neglected. A gardener, who has a very quick eye for wild nature, grows it in quantity (partly because it spreads whether you......

The New Landowner

The question has now arisen whether this body should, or could, own land. In all parts of the country I myself, and doubtless others with greater frequency find people who......