10 AUGUST 1956, page 21

Rambler Roses

To get the best show from a rambler one must prunewith an idea of balance of old wood to cover a particular area, cutting back laterals. Weak shoots appearing at this time of......

More, Blue Hares

The friend who spoke of seeing blue hares on the Derbyshire hills hastened to assure me again that this was so. He had seen two more at the weekend and was convinced that they......

Chess

By PHILI DOR No. 62. J. C. MORRA (3rd Prize, 13.C.P.S. 1953 ToumeY) BLACK (10 men) WHITE (8 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's......

I Was Amused At A Story Of The Experience Of

Y lady who, with an eye to economics and good o nusekeeping, bought a dozen day-old ducks and became their foster-mother, the intention t 'eing to put them to the sword when......

Country Life

BY IAN NIALL ei N HOLIDAY in an old cottage where 'mod. eo ns,' are very much the exception. I find r nYself renewing acquaintance with the daily Chore of water-carrying, going......

'peacocks As Comets Catapult Across The Tarmac Road In A

tail- flurry of blue-green and gilded palm-frond feathers,' starts Han Suyin's . . . and the rain my drink (Cape, 16s.), 'to drop stag- gering, clutching, swinging their meek......