21 MARCH 1941, page 14

A Friend Of Lamb Sta,—your Correspondent, Mr. T. B. Nutter,

must adduce stronger evidence (and cite his references) before he makes us lose our belief in a time-honoured story which has been accepted without question by such an excellent......

B.b.c. Reporting

SIR, —Mr. Herbert Worsley defends the B.B.C. report of Mussolini's recent speech. Emphatically, I do not. " Janus " is perfectly right— after the B.B.C. commentary (not news in......

I Have Been Watching Kingfishers All Winter, And Now A

West Country correspondent sends a series of interesting notes about them, discuss- ing mostly their coloration, but recording also how they come righ t up into the heart of the......

In The Garden The First Flowers Of The Year Have

gone. Tulips suddenly take the place of snowdrops, daffodils of the yellow crocuses. Every. rear Tulip kaufmaniana is an unfailing joy: large, delicate water-likes of......

Selling Surplus It Became Possible ; For The First Time In

my gardening life, to sell some surplus vegetables. The experience may be useful to those who are attracted by the idea of a little summer pin-money. I put up six dozen leeks......

" The Countryman " -

If there has ever been a bad number of The Countryman I have never seen it. The fourteenth birthday number is slim, but in all other respects as admirable as ever. Its range is......

Escape "

Sta,—I have not seen the volume of drawings of Campden by F. L. Griggs, which is noticed by Mr. Graham Greene in your issue of March tath, though I have been familiar with the......