31 MARCH 1928, page 13

1 7 Rom Holm To Senoot.

A few miles east are two houses that have attained to a certain fame ; one because an eccentric genius lived there and exercised his meditative skill in an entirely lovely......

Lincoln Bulbs.

At a recent show of the R.H.S. at Westminster a collection of narcissi grown in Lincolnshire was much admired. Bulb- growing in that prolific county is now a considerable......

Oxford To Staines.

The special " Thames Valley Branch—(Oxford to Staines) " is to have a committee on which five County Councils, several Borough, Urban, and Rural District Councils, Rural Corn-......

Coming Country Clubs.

It is a little surprising that more of these unwanted houses are not converted into country clubs, that favourite estab. lishnient in America and Canada. Some of them have......

Country Life

Here is a brief and inadequate census of a single group of the country houses that have undergone a complete metamorphosis within the last few years. The diameter of the circle......

A Coimeirimb - The Extinction Of The Country House Is

not necessarily lamentable. That great and famous country house, Downharn Hall, in Norfolk, set in lovely woods and heaths, populous only with rabbits, pheasants, and......

The Way Of Destruction.

Now for the individual houses. A. had great charm and a beautiful garden and park ; but the county family who lived there, perhaps for negative, perhaps for positive reasons,......

Rural Protection Again !

A step forward towards the saving of our threatened scenery is arranged for this week, by the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. That ingenious Professor of Civics,......