22 APRIL 1949, page 15

In The Garden The Fight Is As Bitter As Ever

between those who believe in artificial manures and those who do not ; but one detail of agreement is general: a small dose of sulphate, just a pinch or two near the stem, does......

Rus In Urbe What Excellent Opportunities For Tasting The...

o' the year are open to the Londoner! Even the exhibitions show that spring feeling. For example, though I have not yet seen it, I have received most enthusiastic accounts of......

Art

SOME familiar, but always welcome, lithographs by Vuillard may be seen at the Hanover Gallery, where Eileen Agar is also showing new paintings. These, still in that interesting......

Music

Parsifal in a concert version loses all its theatrical enchantment, and the Flower Maidens in the organ loft of the Albert Hall were hard put to it .to exercise their seductive......

Tuts Gracious Spring Has Added To Its Proper Attractions By

borrowing from autumn. The best of all autumnal prunuses, officially labelled autumnalis, flowered at its proper date ; but could not resist the spring and flowered more......

A Sleep - Breaking Chaffinch A Quaint S.o.s. For Advice...

from Sussex, thus : " Could you help us ? Since the last week of January, we have been dis- turbed by a chaffinch. He pecks at our windows from about 5.30 a.m. to......

Tender Blossom In A Highly Optimistic Prognostic Of The...

on farms of all sorts it was said the other day that the tree fruits promised well. After hearing this I went to the nearest tree, a Louise Bonne pear, and counted the blossoms......