17 AUGUST 1956, page 30

Celery Growing Among Things In The Garden That Benefit From

watering, celery does well if the trench is soaked in a dry spell. Blanching should begin about now when the plants are twelve inches high, each plant being earthed up by hand......

Company Notes

BY CUSTOS was very nearly 40s. or 20 per cent. below its recent peak. BURMAH on. fell to 87s., which was 30s. 6d. or 26 per cent. below its recent peak. SHELL, which has not a......

Conversation Piece

'Ole X was what you'd call squire here in them days. A word from him could put you out of your cottage. He owned the first motor-car in the village. Drove it to the bottom of......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL MANY times, while walking in the fields, I have been delighted with the defensive antics of a hen partridge, but the other day, crossing the estuary with two dogs......

Birds And Fruit Writing About Birds And Their Taste For

fruit, a Glasgow reader remarks, 'Hereabouts, in market garden and allotment, straw- berries are seldom netted. It is not birds that hole these but slugs, mostly a tough black......

Chess

BY PHI LIDOR No. 63. W. A. SHINKMAN BLACK (3 men) WHITE (10 men) WHITE tO play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Morra: . B–Kt 2,......