Biological Heresy But 2,000 Acres Have Been Lost To...
heresy. How so ? Because monocultural coniferous plantations have so dense a canopy as to exclude sunlight from their floors, starve out the ground-flora and prevent natural......
Art After The Excesses Of The Fauve And Expressionist...
in their decadence, a return to precision was to be expected, and in various forms—Neue Sachlichkeit, surrealism and American " magic " social realism—has in fact taken place.......
In The Garden In Gardens Spring-cleaning Begins In...
is a nice point to know what to do with the fallen leaves. Many make a bonfire of them, like a spendthrift " burning " his heritage. If they are oak or beech, they are......
Country Life
ONE of my happiest memories is of the Somerset Quantocks, whose length of a dozen miles of mountain-shaped and wood-cloaked hills separates Exmoor from the Bridgwater flats.......
The Wreck Of The Year With Sails Torn To Ribbons
by the winds, but patches of gay bunting still flying, the year labours towards the winter solstice. A few hare- bells, scabious and yellow toadflax linger on the banks ; a few......
Enter The Forestry Commission Then The Forestry...
a scene virtually unchanged since the Lyrical Ballads were issued in 1798, complete with bulldozers and all the paraphernalia of modern clearance, to wake up "the sleep that is......
Journey Remembered
A load of hay heaped up on the red and blue wagon Catches the branches and dangles in wisps on the hedge Long after the whine of the wheel and the hoof - beats die, And we in......
Exhibition
N agreeable exhibition of aquatint and other colour-plate books prom the library of Major J. R. Abbey, which is on view at the National Book League, 7 Albemarle Street, W.1,......
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