4 OCTOBER 1935, page 16

Migrant Butterflies The Season's Enquiry (by The...

Scientific Societies) into the queer and unexplained migrations of butterflies and moths has not been especially remarkable as to Britain itself ; but some of the parallel......

The Frenchman

Sportsmen on a shoot in the south-east Midlands were astonished last week to discover that their bag, which was big, consisted very largely of the French partridge. The numbers......

Standard Roses

Such comparative cheapness has doubtless helped to the spread of such desirable novelties as the Poulsen polyantha, now to be found in every other garden. It has not perhaps......

Garden Catalogues On The Subject Of Gardens—the...

catalogues is one of the features of this year. The Suttons and the Carters and " such great names as these " have always produced coloured books that make a pleasing form of......

Country Life

Back to the Land A pamphlet, very well argued and carefully documented, has been published by the Agricultural Economic Research Institute of Oxford University. It is in......

Allotment Or Farm ?

The land—or so it seems to me—resembles fire : it is a good servant, a very good servant ; but often a bad master. It is good for everyone to have some traffic with land ;......