14 JUNE 1940, page 12

The War Has Made Many A Gardener Aware, For The

first tin. of the importance and charm of vegetables. In March apparent resolve to win the war by means of the onion was great that it became almost impossible to obtain seed.......

Petunias

The petunia, like the fuchsia and the pelargonium, has gone a little out of fashion. Yet many of the plants which have re- placed it in favour—zinnia, antirrhinum, nemesia—are......

The Cinema Si Squadron 992 "—at The Regal And London

Pavilion.—"Every- thing Happens at Night." —At the Regal. FOR various reasons (most of them highly mysterious) docu- mentary films have not been largely to the forefront since......

Attack On The Cuckoo

Hudson, in perhaps the most famous passage ever written about the cuckoo, calls attention to the remarkable indifference of a robin to her own ejected nestling—" slowly and......

The Sixth Column

A two-hour night-patrol with a Lee-Metford, guarding a small automatic country telephone exchange, aroused a few disturbing reflections. Between the hours of eleven and one the......