4 JULY 1931, page 19

Apropos, The Best Little Book On Annuals That Exists Has

just been issued. It is a repetition with important additions of a lecture on annuals delivered to the Royal Horticultural Society' by Mr. Leonard Sutton. A copy kindly sent to......

Country Life

THE RIBBON DANGER. The Council for the Preservation of Rural England, and the Amenity Group in the House, both or which are non- political and have been co.operating most......

&roar And Snows.

A progressive change in the English country show is brought out by the present unhappy outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. These institutions were first called cattle shows,......

The Tax Will Therefore Directly , Encourage Ribbon...

I am credibly assured that even its remote threat is already having this effect on landowners who were willing to lose profit for the sake of amenity. It is na wonder that the......

Tim Laburnum.

A gardener, whose most lovely garden proclaims his peculiar knowledge of shrubs, is good enough to give me a complete explanation of the mystery of the laburnum, referred to......

Further, The Displays Of Machinery Grow More And More...

Among animals the hunter and hackney take a bigger place and now constitute one of the chief attractions of the show for the general public. This does not mean that the stock......

A Garden Experiment.

At the suggestion of a famous gardener, I have tried this year the experiment of a bed of mixed annuals, with results that are at least interesting. The best seedsmen now breed......