21 JUNE 1946, page 12

Country Life

THE master in these country matters, for whom I play locum year by year, wrote a few weeks ago about the effect of latter-day agricultural conditions upon the hird-life of......

In My Garden I Have Never Known So Spectacular An

early summer in the garden. The frequent rains have brought the lawns to perfection, following an experimental treatment with basic slag instead of the more usual lawn- sand......

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Urania And Uranium

" The electrifying announcement that Uranium, used in making atomic bombs, can be `de-natured,' so that it becomes in effect non- explosive, has ranked with many as second only......

Bird Shyness The Most Obvious Change In The Habits Of

the birds is their larger group gatherings and troopings, especially the blue-tits and all the hedgerow families. These gay little creatures followed in their myriads the early......

The Tidy Countryside With This Auxiliary Labour Of...

plus that of the men returned from the Services, the farmers have had the spring-clean of their lives. I have never seen the countryside so carefully trimmed and set. The......

Art

Contemporary Italian Painting. At the Redfern.—American Painting. At the Tate. THE provinces may well envy the fortunate Londoner his unrationed opportunities nowadays to assess......