6 SEPTEMBER 1930, page 13

Ringed Birds.

Some bird-lovers arc beginning to grow nervous about the popular habit of ringing nestling birds in order to discover their migratory movements. It may be said in general that......

Happily In England As A Whole The Losses—even When We

reckon the cliffs of "slipper clay" that topple into the sea at Cromer and Runton—are greatly less than the gains. England grows bigger by a thousand acres every decade. Why......

First, The Evesham People "sell What They Can And Can

what they can't." Not only are there canning factories of considerable scale in being, but the art of canning has so spread that very small canneries are multiplying. The art is......

New Flowers.

It is the season when the garden catalogues are in spate ; and they are as pleasant to study as the advertisements of country houses, even if we have no intention whatever of......

Country Life

THE FRUIT HARVEST. Fruit is in such luscious quantity that even as you drive through the Vale of Evesham you see lines of trees broken to smithereens by the abnormal weight. You......

More England.

Travelling during the week from North-west to Eastern England I was struck by the queer contrasts of loss and gain to the land. Just north of Liverpool the sea is swallowing up......

Apple Flavours.

Visitors to fruit-growing centres have been surprised by the earliness and bulk of some part of the apple-harvest. A certain amount was gathered as early as July ; and there is......