21 JULY 1928, Page 14

JULY, THE SUDDEN.

July heat proved so sudden and complete that it caught' some producers, and many gardeners, napping: - Fruit, especially currants, ripened so quickly that they began to fall before the pickers could get to work. All fruit and most flowers advanced with similar speed ; and within three or four days those pessimists who insist-on describing sunshine as drought began to have some sort of justification. How very rapidly the brooks and rivers and ponds shrank 1

W. BEACH THOMAS.