Country Life April 13 2016

This week in Country Life, do you know your trees? Test yourself and learn the trees you dont' know. Plus, listen out for the amazing songbirds hallelujah chorus and 43 pages of fantastic country houses for sale.
** Sir Tim Laurence, the chairman of the newly independent English Heritage, talks to Clive Aslet
** Charles Quest-Ritson ventures to the Villa della Pergola on the Italian Riviera, where a century-old British garden has received a new lease of life
** In south Devon, Julie Harding meets a man who swapped a life with numbers for one fashioning leather goods
** A new catalogue of the Wallace Collection’s sculptures holds numerous dicoveries about these little-known treasures, as its author, Jeremy Warren, explains
** Simon Hopkinson cooks curry
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