5 FEBRUARY 1927, page 15

A New Hedge.

To the multitude of garden novelties, " created " or im- ported, there is no end ; but it is only now and then that a plant is introduced which adds a permanent enrichment to......

Golf And Gymnasts.

The professors of what the scornful call "physical jerks" are now, I see, turning their attention to exercises that train for particular games. Golf is the latest game to be......

Another Church Register.

Another gem from a church register must be added to the list. The registers of this particular church were burnt, but some few tit-bits were happily saved :— " CIIURCH WARDEN'S......

A Norfolk Sanctuary.

A trust of an entirely new sort has just been established in Norfolk, that metropolis capital of British naturalists. It has no share capital and has no concern with profit. Its......

Well, The Two Garden Cities Are Easy Targets For Ridicule.

Neither is all it should be, could be or would be. In making the admirable surveys and censuses of the area—its plants ; its animals and its geology—the fluent notes of that......

The Close Season And Poaching.

The greatest division of the year is February 2nd, if we may take that as the most typical date for the beginning of the " wappen-still-stand " or close season, when it is......

Country Life And Sport

GARDEN CM( PROBLEMS. Feudal England, as some would call it, and England of the future join frontiers in peculiarly suggestive contrast jus t t south of Hatfield ; and at the end......

Is The Garden City Idea A Crank's Dream Or A

real escape from the unwholesome ugliness of industrial life ? In the last few months we have had abundant evidence that in the United States and, to a less degree, in Europe......