14 FEBRUARY 1941, page 16

Medicinal Herbs No Paragraph Of Mine Has Created More...

I think, than that in which, late last summer, I gave some details of the current prices of medicinal herbs. The year was too old and the blitz too vigorously young to enable......

The S.s. Dunera '

SIR,—In his letter describing the treatment of a Sherborne deportee, Mr. E. H. Pease accuses the captain, officers, crew and guards on board the s.s. Dunera ' of grossly inhuman......

In The Garden Many Gardeners, Like Myself, See No Practical

purpose in trying to grow mixed borders of flowers and vegetables, but where flower beds are cleared twice a year there is no reason why flowers and vegetables should not be......

Country Life

Swan Battle Six swans, two parents and four cygnets, ruled the lake all sunimer. At the first sign of severe frost six strange adult birds appeared from the direction of the......

" The Case Of The U.d.f."

SIR,—" When I use a word," said Humpty-Dumpty, " it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less. . . ." "Partisan!" says the Northern Ireland Minister for Public......

More Uncommon Vegetables Several Correspondents Have...

of the asparagus pea, which I mentioned on December 27th. Miss Eleanor Sinclair Rohde, who has often written of uncommon vegetables, is one of the very few seedsmen to offer......

The Indian Deadlock Sgt,—to Argue That An Indian Majority...

a right in the name of democracy to impose its will on Indian minorities because, under wholly different conditions, majority rule seems natural to us in Great Britain is to......

Tickets For Fire Watchers

SIR,—The railway companies are refusing to issue workmen's tickets to night fire-watchers proceeding to their duties in the evening. I have taken up the matter with the Ministry......