16 AUGUST 1946, page 14

Gooseberry Mildew

Sta,—A few weeks ago I read with much interest and sympathy Mr. Richard Church's account of the loss of his five-year-old gooseberry bushes through mildew. Perhaps my experience......

"about The Atom"

Sia,—In the issue of August 2nd I regret to say that Professor Dingle has misquoted me on some occasions and has thus misrepresented my meaning. Thus he has objected to the use......

Sir Osbert Si1well's Bus

Sta,—Your review of The Scarlet Tree quotes Sir Osbert Sitwell's description of the London horse-bus with "two large wheels in front and two smaller--ones behind." But were the......

The Pitfalls Of Education

Sta,—Betweeti the two world wars an educational experiment was made by the Czechs who abandoned the educational ladder and built a broad highway—paved with the very best......

The Reaping In My Immediate Neighbourhood Disturbed...

that were many and large and singularly strong on the wing The extension of grain harvests and the comparative absence of sportsmen has increased the population of this most......

In My Garden Garden Books Usually Advise Us To Sow

annuals in the autumn, with a view to earlier flowering. It seems to me that the great value of annuals is that they will flower late. The Shirley poppies the co rn flowers,......

Country Life ,

THE whirligig has brnught back - one old custom or habit to country places: As soon as the corn is cut gleaners go forth, not for the sake of the old yellow "gleaning loaves,"......

A Visitor, Who Was Astonished To Find A Home-county Common

purple with ling, represents, I think, a general ignorance. Many of these southern commons are as favourable to this species of heather as the moors of the north or peaty plains......

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