7 MAY 1927, page 14

A Miracle Of Frost.

Sonic very curious contrasts which may interest most amateur gardeners may be recorded of the really virulent succession of hard frosts that intrpduced the last week of April.......

Doubts About Bird Protection.

A good deal of excited feeling is being stirred, especially among ardent friends of the birds, by the new consolidating Bill on Bird Protection. On the whole, to my thinking, it......

Not Many Gardeners, It Is To Be Feared, Found Much

pro- tection froM the frost. Almost all those enthusiasts who attempted to grow very early potatoes lost a very large percentage, as anyone who had self-sown roots in the garden......

Country Life And Sport

WHERE VILLAGES EXCEL. At the edge of Hatfield Park, a place long famous for birds and flowers and much besides, was held last week, under the chairmanship of Lord Salisbury, a......

The Secret Of Progress.

Now the real point is this : in every village exist people who possess the time, the freedom, the money, the apparatus and the knowledge to procure for their little community......

The Sun The Enemy.

The interpretation, is that the sun does the damage even. more directly than the frost, though, of course, in association with it. Some years ago, a practical professor of......

• * * Where Burns Build.

Some account was given last week of a robin which used the roof of a wren's nest as the floor of its own. A few days after this was discovered in the garden, a clutch of robin's......