19 APRIL 1940, page 17

Dutch Gardeners A Number Of Humble Gardeners Are Now...

well and, what is more, quickly grown lettuces, radishes and young carrots, and next week hope to cut their magnanimous or big-hearted broccoli. These gourmets' feasts are the......

Art

Hodgkins, Aldridge, Rogers ANY exhibition of the work of Frances Hodgkins is an im- portant event. She is showing pictures in gouache at the Lefevre Gallery. Broken in form,......

Suspended Spring May We Hope That This Year The Behaviour

of that lovely but tricksy plant Iris stylosa will be characteristic of this spring in general. Instead of flowering sparsely in January, it is flowering with unprecedented......

Rhythmic Advice A Humble Golf-player Confessed That He...

a couplet of imperatives which, he said, had much improved his game. It seemed to me that the lines are equally applicable to the swinger of the scythe, that much superior......

The Cinema

"Of Mice and Men." At the Odeon. THERE are times when the unfortunate film critic regrets the many adverbs and adjectives which, faute de mieux, he has lavished on the general......

The Middle Of April Is Perhaps Much Fuller Of Events

for the naturalist than any other period of the year. In my record swallow and cuckoo first make themselves apparent about April 12th, and there is a particular clump of bushes......