1 JUNE 1956, page 26

The Fire Lighter Ail The Story-teller Was Describing How...

the fire. 'I never lights it for my misses out looking up the chimley first. When gi c first married she used to laugh about it f . , ask me if 1 had money in an old sock up 0'......

Tulip Care

Success in having a good display 0 ' 0) 0 year after year without buying 110 de Pends on the gardener lifting the bulbs after the y have bloomed. Scorching of the leaves is sign......

Overcrowding

The pair of jackdaws that have nested in 111 ,; same big hole in the cliff face for several Yc a ' enjoy a coveted site, but adjoining it is smaller and shallower hole where,......

Country Life

BY IAN NIALL PINK trout for supper—one cannot guarante e such things. One cannot even say wit', certainty that there will be trout of any s° 1 , on one's return, but we had pink......

New Novels

THE novels of Cesare Pavese, who died young in 1950. °f , beginning to reach us in English—atmospheric essays 1 oy A than novels proper, and conjuring, rather than individuals......