12 JUNE 1941, page 13

In The Garden

The campaign for digging up lawns is renewed. There never seems to be a corresponding campaign for paths. The general Edwardian lay-out seems to have been a path of three or......

Late Spring It Is No Secret Now That The Spring

has been bitter, backward and extremely treacherous. The frost of May 16th was almost, but not quite, as severe as the frost of exactly the same day in 1935, when 20 degrees was......

A Psychological Error ?

Ste,—Like your correspondent Mr. J. L. Hodson I also feel concerned by reports of the lack of materials in our factories at the time they are required and by absenteeism and......

Country Life

Kent Front " We cannot understand," writes an American friend, "why you are still in Kent." From friends in other parts of England there continually comes the same expression of......

A Question Of Bricks

SIR,—Whatever else we may or may not want when this war is over, it is certain that we shall need every brick that is to be had. One would therefore think that every brickworks......

Herbage Seed Production To A Recent Note On Ley-farming I

must now add a word on Sir George Stapledon's Herbage Seed Production (Welsh Plant- Breeding Station, is.), which is complementary to the same authority's bulletin on......

" Cret E Post-mortem "

SIR,—May I comment briefly on the article "Crete Post-mortem " in last week's Spectator? In one breath Strategicus speaks of the solid bastion of Cyprus, in the next he asks......

,‘ Germany After The War " _

SIR,—To give a full reply to all the questions raised by Dr. W. H. Dawson in your issue of May 3oth would require much more space than I could possibly hope for. There are,......