29 OCTOBER 1937, page 17

Country Life

The Devil's Dyke Planting, or transplanting time, which comes with late October and November, is of more than usual importance this year in Britain. Thousands of coronation......

Inland Gulls

A phenomenon among birds that astonished some local observers was the appearance of three herring gulls in the neighbourhood of Luton. Some years ago their coming would have......

A Favourite Home Whenever You Come Upon Remnants Of This

marvellous dyke, or indeed of Offa's dyke, it is of particular beauty ; and the more of it that is preserved for the nation the better. The dip has defied the plough and native......

New Homes .

That hard-working and highly expert body, the Council for-the Preservation of Rural England, has received some rather acrid criticism 'from critics who seem to some of us very......

French Coveys _ I Listened This Week To An Almost

angry controversy among sportsmen on the subject of the partridge that we call French, though the common partridge of France is the English or Hungarian species. One of the......

Increasing Birds In The Annals Of Our Game Few Derails

are more remarkable than the re-emergence of these birds. They were very common in old days when men shot over dogs, but diminished very rapidly when driving became the common......

A Prolonged Season

Amongst the flowers proper to the season, especially dahlia, chrysanthemum and perennial aster, are an unwonted number of flowers that are altogether out of season. You could......