11 MARCH 1955, page 14

Urgent Tasks Among The Urgent Things To Be Done In

the garden this month is the pruning of roses, which should be completed by the beginning of April but put off if there is a hard frost. General principles are to open up the......

City And Suburban

By JOHN BETJEMAN A GREAT gap yawns in the Cornmarket. Oxford, where once stood the friendly plaster front of the Clarendon Hotel. It was the last building in that street to......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL BITING about old-fashioned cures, a doctor who lives in Yorkshire remarks : 'You may be a little interested to know that some ten years ago Leeds University Dental......

The Pet Lamb Raising An Animal From A Tender Age

often creates a strong bond between the foster-parent and his charge, and when the helpless creature happens to be a lamb, the attachment can become a bugbear, for a lamb......

High Water One Good Thing Comes Out Of The Snow,

so far as salmon fishing goes. It seems very likely that there will be plenty of water in the rivers for some weeks to come. A good flow means that fish will be encouraged to......