11 MAY 1951, Page 18

COUNTRY LIFE

UNTIL mid-May is well past the crop Is never safe. From ti. point of view therefore, unsettled weather is an advantage. So we are glad to welcome "Folkestone ladies" from our inland elevation. Thew are pillars of tight-packed cumulus cloud over the coast. Presumably the name originated from their likeness to the high curled wigs of eighteenth-century beauties. Impressive in themselves when seen at a distance, they foretell weather without frost, a boon to the fruit-grower.