21 MAY 1942, page 10

The Way Of A Bee

A device of extreme nicety and ingenuity has just been perfect for detecting the way of a bee in the air and the flower. The weig of the bee on passing over the floor of the......

Country Life

A vouNG rook, very curiously marked, was brought to me t other day after a thinning of the rookery. Its head was black, b both wings were marked by a regular and very pretty......

Early Oaks

That extremely popular doggerel couplet (which extracts differe conclusions from the relative budding time of oak and ash) sho give the rural weather prophets a very definite......

The Cinema

"The Next of Kin." At the Carlton and the London Pavilion. WITHIN the narrow limits of weekly praise and blame it is easy to lose sight of the full measure of the film's......

Icemen

Queries have reached me on the exacter meaning of "The Festi of the Three Icemen." Three Catholic saints occupy on calendar the three successive days, May 12th to 14th; and are......

In The Garden

"Hardening off," one of the special duties at the time for gardeners who have any glass, is an especially needful practice growing out-of-door tomatoes. The tomato is not a......