Western Fir Trees Standing " Forty Feet Without A Knot
" have touched Mr. Glover's imagination, as well they might. Of the individual trees that remain most vividly in my mind is a karri in Western Australia. It was being felled......
" Country Life
NORFOLK FARMS. A traveller who has recently completed a farming tour round the world—he had special missions in Canada, North and South America, all provinces of Australia and......
Fir, Pine And Larch Afforestation Is Probably Being...
for economic purposes, and quite certainly for aesthetic. Asa home for birds nothing is worse ; and of all the sorts of conifer that have been tried the very worst (not......
Woods Versus Birds.
Curious coincidences occur between one's reading and one's experiences. Last week I solaced parts of a very slow railway journey by reading Mr. Glover's article in The Spectator......
The Forest Where Trees Grow Close Is Abhorrent To Most
birds. It is dark and fearsome. Even a small wood of pine, such as that where the wolves live at Whipsnade, is repellent to most birds. You may find there owls and carrion crow,......
Nesting Herons.
One bird banished from some well-known haunts by the felling of timber, especially in Northumberland, is the heron, but the species is increasing in England, nevertheless. I saw......
This Last Week I Paid A Visit To West Norfolk,
a great farming district. You can rent, or buy, what land you like for a song. A certain amount of fair land—it would be called good in parts of Australia—is derelict and quite......
This Example Of Cheap Land Is Not Quoted For The
sake of emphasizing the woes of the landlord ; but to indicate the chances of the farmer. I went over one large farm, in excellent heart, with promising crops of grain all......
The Hedgerow's Date.
The supreme and peculiar beauty of England dates from the destruction of the woods and the destruction of the plains that succeeded. The phrase that God made the country and man......
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