3 SEPTEMBER 1937, page 18

Urban Birds An Official Plea Has Been Issued For The

discouragement of the London pigeon, which it is said could be reduced in number if food were less freely distributed and suitable nesting places protected. It is hardly likely......

It Is Difficult, We Know, In A Period Of Fantastic

surrirher heat, to wallow in December snows ; but the Christma bulb bowl is best prepared in August. Soine quaint advice on the subject is given in a very practical book (Room......

Ugly Darwins A Gardener, As Brave As He Is Learned,

has dared to maintain' that the Darwin tulip—which is much the most popular of all—is ugly. He finds other faults : -it is liable to disease; it is short-lived except in a......

Pigeon Fodder It Seems That The Taste For Cigarette Ash,

reported of some Indian pigeons, is common to the tribe. A keeper of fantails and wrens in Durham is almost mobbed by his birds when he and others begin to smoke cigarettes in......

Absent Birds It Is A Surprising Contrast Of Experience That

the Norwegians are lamenting the paucity of seagulls (as indeed of other more desirable birds) while our seaside folk are distressed at their multitude. A very strange reason is......

Country Life

Close Seasons The close connexion between agriculture and shooting is bringing back into favour the First of September. The date has often been too early, since the fields are......

The Greater Pirt Of A Very Rapid Harvest Of Super-excellent

. quality, though not immense quantity, had been gatherel in be- fore August was over, and a good many fields are already ploughed. Peripatetic tractors and ploughs have seldom......

A Protective Postponement

A definite change in the date for the open season has been suggested for Scotland. The black game have diminished in almost all districts and have clean vanished in some. The......