Grubbed Hedges
A number of cuttings- from the correspondence to local papers has reached me, all protesting with sentimental fervour against the destruc- tion of hedges. War against hedges......
In The Garden
A great gardener plants his lilies among his heaths in order to shade the base and allow the flower the sunlight. I duly copied ; but the heaths grew too tall ; and in removing......
A Bird Census
There has been a scare—in Europe as in North America—that wild fowl, meaning duck and geese, were seriously diminishing. New laVys and, to some slight extent, a new interest,......
How To Treat Franco Sir, It Is With The Greatest
satisfaction that I have read in The Spectator of September 24th an article I have hoped to find week by week for the last three years: How to Treat Franco. " The present absurd......
Mr. Bevan And His Critics Sir,—i Have Read With Much
interest, tempered by more than a little scepticism, the character study of Mr. Bevan in The Spectator of Septem- ber 24th. One gets somewhat fatigued with a verbal tour de......
Country Life
AT a meeting of a local council, when a housing estate was under discussion, one member urged that trees should be planted. The first comment was that they must be "ornamental......
Preliminary Announcement.
JUST TO REMIND readers overseas that copies of THE SPECTATOR are available for Christmas and New Year Gifts AND to invite them to take out subscriptions for their friends.......
The Hunt And The Trap Sir,—i Would Point Out To
Sir W. Beach Thomas that when in 1931 a Bill was introduced to make steel traps illegal it was defeated largely by the efforts of the British Field Sports Society. If poison and......
Swarms And Trespassing Sir,—your Correspondent, Mr. J. H....
me. I am intermittently pestered by my neighbour's fowls extending their Lebensraum. I was assured by the local constabulary that it was my, and not the owner's, responsibility......
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