20 MAY 1949, page 16

English Preservers The Annual Meeting Of That Most...

the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, was remarkable for the stress laid on the undoubted truth'that the threats which called the Council into being are to- day......

With The Death On Monday Of Sir William Nicholson, England

loses an artist of whom it has reason to be proud. Practical, resourceful, ambitious, he was, above all, a master of his craft, who applied himself to painting with unswerving......

Cultivation Cartridges

Among orchards in which experiments have been tried is one—in Worcestershire—consisting of morello cherries. The trees were not doing well, so the ingenious owner sank a number......

The Three Ice-men Anticipated The First Of Their...

three days, and this may be called punctuality in the list of standard prognostics about the weather. They did a good deal of harm, not least in the Worcestershire valleys. On......

Towards The Sky The Youthful Tom Hood Thought That The

fir trees touched the sky. Some small boys of today have an alternative to conifers. Two of them, aged about five years, while playing golf on a common were addressed by a......

In The Garden After Some Denials It Seems Now To

he generally accepted that the spindle, that beautiful wild shrub, is the chief host of the abominable, foul black fly that attacks the broad beans, now at the height of their......