In The Garden A Garden Theorist Urges Me To Treat
scarlet runner beans as perennials! They are, of course, very deep-rooted, penetrate perhaps deeper than any other vegetable, and when well protected will survive the winter. It......
Country Life
A floriferous November is not uncommon i n this blessed island, warmed (if also wetted) by the west wind ; but this November seems to have encouraged some unusual plants. My......
Building And The Future
Snt,—In his letter in your issue of 17th inst., Mr. Adams repeats the claim so often made but never I think substantiated, that the ordinary employee works more efficiently for......
Books On Husbandry
An utterly surprising number of books on the subject of husbandry have recently been published and, what is more, bought. Personally, I have read a baker's dozen during the......
Spenlow And Jorkins
It was suggested to a country house owner who was afforesting a part of his estate that he should apply for a Government subsidy. He refused on discovering that the grant was......
Urbanized Birds One Is Tempted To Believe That Birds Are
being progressively urbanized. Not long since such rarities as the greenshank, the black-necked grebe, and the blue-headed wagtail were noted in the neighbourhood of the Welsh......
The Hungarians
SIR,—It is surprising that Mr. Harold Nicolson should write, and that you should publish, the remarks on Hungary in " Marginal Comment " of November loth, since they are based......
Can We Afford It ?
Sm,—I must thank Mr. Manning Dacey for his reply. I had taken as a basis the 1943 returns—the only authentic ones. May I now take his post-war estimates? Mr. Dacey assumes......
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