13 AUGUST 1948, page 14

In The Garden Garden Catalogues Arrive Almost Daily, Many Of

them from smaller growers who have started of recent years. They are well worded and illustrated, but singularly unvaried. I happened to wish to buy some lily bulbs, especially......

Holidays In The Harvest Fields There Could Be No More

cheery holiday trip than a walk among English harvest fields this August. Do wealth and beauty so coalesce anywhere else? During an evening stroll I happened to see all the......

The Spectator

AIR EDITION Here this morning—in North America this afternoon. BY AIR: 52 weeks sitoo—p 10s. Od. 26 weeks $7.00—£1 15s. Od. Subscriptions for U.S.A. and Canada may be sent to—......

Country Life

How vain it is to generalise about England with its infinite varieties! While Kent laments the paucity of birds and butterflies, Hertfordshire boasts of the exceptional number......

Winter Rain

WE are disposed, this undemanding lane, These uncontending fields and trees and I, In one drenched gloom with the down-gathered sky, All wide awake but in a trabquil vein. Only......

Music

BEETHOVEN still seems to be the most popular composer with the Prom, audiences, though Bach and Mozart run him close. In a way this seems to me an excellent sign and it says a......

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A Happy Alliance

A peculiarly happy association exists between the National Trust and naturalists in general ; and this is particularly well illustrated in regard to the Council for the......