16 JANUARY 1948, page 18

Tree Fuel Most Of Us In These Days, Especially Rural

householders, are personally interested in the subject of wood-fuel ; and a great many people are asked to buy ill-burning wood at an exorbitant price. What sorts of wood are......

The South Kingdom

Sta,—With all deference to the authority of Professor Ekwall, quoted by Sir A. C. Grant-Duff, I suggest that he is wrong, and that your reviewer is right in his etymology of the......

Country Life

THE Chiltern hills and downs, lovely in themselves and a stance for many lovely views, are underlaid by reservoirs of water that feed a number of little rivers, of which the......

Not So Fast

Sta,—I expect I shall be anticipated in informing . STAIR that the New Year of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue is April 5th, not All......

All From The French

Sut,—In his paragraph on- " the absurd omnibus " Janus mentions that the word was introduced by the French, and it may be of interest to recall the possibly mitigating......

At Shelley's Shrine Sir, —on Page 42 Of The Spectator For

January 9th Mr. John Garrett says: " . a whole generation's capitulation to what Shelley called ` that unrest which men miscall delight.' " On - page - 56, I read: "There is......

The Old Pheasant Some Years Ago There Was In Evidence

a mania for introducing more or less new varieties of pheasant such as the so called, so uglily called, melanistic mutant and the versicolor. They were on the whole easier to......

Adolescent Love Sir, —mr. Harold Nicolson's Article On...

de Londres, raises some interesting questions. According to Monsieur Queval, even " the most adult " of English love affairs are " adolescent in style." How does he know ? On......

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Literary Fashion In Trees It Is Interesting To Mark How

the literary fashion in trees has varied at different dates in different countries. Cedar and fir prevail in the Bible. In much early English verse the ivy (which incidentally......

In My Garden It Is Perhaps Salutary To Remember That

in the intensive French garden system almost the busiest sowing period of the year begins at about this date. The gardeners round Paris, Rouen and The Hague, for example, make......