29 NOVEMBER 1935, Page 17

A Preservation Card

The habit of producing a propagandist Christmas card is increasing, especially in pursuit of the cause of rural preser- vation. The best that I have seen this year (if comparison is not odious) is the great spotted woodpecker on the birch trunk, which is the Christmas card of the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust. The second perhaps is produced by that active and ingenious body who fight for the preservation of Bucking- hamshire, one of the counties most severely threatened by the "concrete mendacities" of so-called developers. It is a black and ,white illustration of the typical and historical English village of Little Missenden. It is sold on behalf of the Preservation funds from the house of Mrs. Langley Taylor.