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CO U TRY LIFE-JAN UARY 3, 1963 B·UNTINGS ON THE ROAD TO THE MIDI W Written and Illustrated by W

... two of them calling wistfully at a safe distance, but after a five minutes' wait the cock escorted his partner back to the blackberry clump, celebrating his return with a snatch of song. A moment later the hen slipped inside the tangle of branches and crept ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1628 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

RARI TI ES OF WI L D LIFE painted by John Leigh Pemberton Among the wildfowl visitors to England you

... two of them calling wistfully at a safe distance, but after a five minutes' wait the cock escorted his partner back to the blackberry clump, celebrating his return with a snatch of song. A moment later the hen slipped inside the tangle of branches and crept ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 13761 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

THROUGH ANDALUSIA ON HORSEBACK

... street, flirtino-with A t inker sat in the through fields o£ maize edged with pomeblackberries, prickly pear and granate , blackberries, spindly aloes. gipsy, ~ ·as our groom. The horses arc strong, mountain-bred crossed with Arab, 14 to 15.2 hands high, ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1544 | Page: 55 | Tags: none

MODEL HOUSE IN AN ANCIENT TOWER

... fireplaces. The main problem was to get rid of a 20-ft. tree, growing on the vault of the present drawing-room, root out the blackberry bushes and remove the 3t t ons of earth that had s ilted up interior. Then it was largely a putting on a new roof and windows ...

Published: Thursday 28 March 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3348 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

MYSTERIOUS DECLINE OF THE BULLFINCH

... sudden strange disappearance of the bullfinches . While odd faithful pairs could be seen in the neighbourhood, feeding on blackberries, sampling the seeds of nettles and persicaria, and, above all, returning day after day to feed on the seed of favourite ...

Published: Thursday 11 April 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1977 | Page: 47 | Tags: none

through most of the \\inter, though the p lums (and later the pears) began to suffer a li ttle more

... favourite foods. Silver birches seeded ·ell, too, and l have often \\atched the birds feeding on the decaying seeds of blackberries throughout the period from cptembcr to :\[arch. J s t hat the whole story? Must we fear more heavy destruction of soft-fruit ...

Published: Thursday 11 April 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 310 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

High Pleasure of Larks

... public footpath , labelled thus by a conscientious local council, but obviously, to j uclge from the tangle of nettles and blackberries, never used. But how delightful it can \Valking has gone out of fashion since the invention of the bicycle and, more latterly ...

Published: Thursday 18 April 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 396 | Page: 55 | Tags: none

COUNTRY Vol. CXXXIII No. 3455 KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY By order of the Executors of the late Sir J ohn

... cllyer, articles on the gardens at H aseley Court, Oxfordshire, by Lanning Eoper; on the by D. :\'l.acer cultivation of blackberries, by D. :\'l.acer \\.right ; on problems of gardening in a windy climate, by M. H. Porter ; and on the history development ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7955 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

PRESERVATION AND PUBLICITY

... cllyer, articles on the gardens at H aseley Court, Oxfordshire, by Lanning Eoper; on the by D. :\'l.acer cultivation of blackberries, by D. :\'l.acer \\.right ; on problems of gardening in a windy climate, by M. H. Porter ; and on the history development ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1032 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

BLACKBERRIES FOR CULTIVATION

... its name tempts me to try it. BLACKBERRIES BLACKBERRIES BLACKBERRIES BLACKBERRIES BLACKBERRIES BLACKBERRIES FOR FOR CULTIVATION C in years plucked appear hundred ago; the plentiful from Falstaff's upon as ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2144 | Page: 65 | Tags: none

The last story, A D iscoverv in the Hioods, I found moving, beautifu l and terrible. I fancy it is

... means to convey on every page. A group of children from a fishing village go into forbidden territory They dis- to gather blackberries. They discover what t hey think is an enormous ruined house. Presently we realise the house is an ocean-going liner, cast ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 299 | Page: 84 | Tags: none

GLIMPSES OF BRITAIN TOMORROW

... and tubers, and the voles have no trouble at all in getting food. Susy spends most of her time burrowing into clumps of blackberry or hidden away in the heart of a bush waiting for a vole to make a false move and reveal its hiding-place. \Vhen this happens ...

Published: Thursday 11 July 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4590 | Page: 33 | Tags: none