6 DECEMBER 1930, page 15

Country Life

THE AMENITY GROUP. The House of Commons contains a so-called " Amenity Croup," which is very watchful, very practical, and already influential. Under the chairmanship of Mr.......

Various Hunts Of Late Have Come Across Other Animals Than

the fox, and have put their hounds in a quandary. A year ago a wombat which escaped from the new zoo at Whipsoade was hunted to the death. This year hounds have several times......

A Precocious Iris.

One of the most pictorial and decorative of garden flowers —the Iris Stylosa—has this year surprised and charmed its votaries. It has been flowering freely for some weeks, a......

Land Valuation And Land Beauty.

On this question, which vitally affects our " green and pleasant land," I may perhaps be allowed a prophecy. Before very long every county will possess its own town and regional......

If There Is One Detail That Supremely Illustrates The...

of present opinion in rural England from Victorian days it is the general attitude to the fox. Foxes are shot freely and without concealment. One very large landowner sent out......

The Tree Sense.

Some welcome advance of what some call the " country bias " or rural mind in our present civilization may perhaps be inferred from the diaries and calendars that make their......

The Following Quotation From The Letter Of An Historian Will

illustrate the danger that confronts our fairest acres. Last year the VVelcombe Estate, in the midst of the Shakes- peare Country, alongside the sole unspoilt approach to......

Now We Cannot Expect Those Who Have Enthusiasms For This

or that sort of land valuation or taxation to wait till such a prophecy as this may be fulfilled. It follows that the one way to save England and to prevent the conflict of such......