20 JULY 1951, page 13

Old Roses The Theme Of Old Roses Is So Fascinating

that at the peak of the garden- ing season I must give the rest of my space to them and my vine. I have almost a surfeit of hybrid perpetuals and hybrid teas, many of which......

A Partridge's Nest

In spite of such capricious experience, I did not expect to find a partridge's nest at the end of last month bn the edge of my potato- ground in the kitchen-garden adjacent to......

The Festival At Brighton

BRIGHTON is truly en fete. On Monday her flags, gardens, freshly painted houses, light-encircled lamp-posts and banners gaily wel- comed visitors to the opening of her......

Country Life

HAVE known some queer nesting sites in my time and on my land. A pair of linnets once nested in the folded secrecy of one of my dwarf Irish yews. Willow-warblers brought up a......

In The Garden Fifteen Or More Years Ago I Planted

a Royal Muscadene vine when about four feet high. It now extends for sixteen yards, and has had to be supported overhead by a colonnade of white brick pillars connected to the......

Art

IT seemed at one time as though Graham Sutherland was not much longer to be classed among the contemporary romantics, so intel- lectually formalised was his work becoming.......

"tbe 6pectator," 310 19tb, 1851

THE bill for the alteration of those • phrases in the oath of abjuration which prevent its being taken by Jews, and thus make of it an instrument for excluding gentlemen of the......