28 JULY 1928, page 13

Pear M A In.

Much that is of rural—and indeed dietetic—interest is contained in these records. The emphasis on Peannain, as the local and apparently most highly prized variety, indicates......

Which We Call Cider, Suggests That It Had Its Origin

in Norfolk, a county that has again and again proved an agricultural pioneer. Two quotations from contemporary records seem to prove this : " The Lordships of Redham and......

Sun And Harvest.

The year is reaching its summit with the grain harvest. Here and there a field of oats will fall next week. What promised to be an exceptionally late harvest will be normal in......

Oxford And Kent.

I have a very definite scheme to suggest for their considera- tion, and have the hardihood to believe it might do incal- culable good in every larger village, as it has done in......

Country Life

COMMUNITY COUNCILS. It is to be hoped that Oxfordwas offering a home to a winning, not a lost, cause when it received this week and last the apostles of the Rural Commwaity......

The Parvenu Strawberry.

Pearmain apples are old. Strawberries, as we know them, are singularly new. I do not think the information is as yet put together in any book, but the raw material for a history......

* * * * Village Cricketers.

In spite of more ambitious and more widely advertised endeavours, the best form of leadership and co-operation comes, as it seems to me, from Kent, and concerns not a craft or......

A Certain Liveliness.

Increased liveliness in the life of the English village is an undoubted fact, due to many causes, human and mechanical ; to Women's Institutes (which claim the first place) ; to......