23 AUGUST 1940, page 26

Wheat Workers

Except perhaps a cook surveying her lines of bottled fruit or jam, no one gets such pleasure from evidence of accomplished work as a farmer in the spectacle of a great......

Country Life

Orchard Methods The other day I walked through an orchard in which it seemed that every tree was laden with fruit. The shy apples were as many as the more robustious kinds.......

Leeks And Lilies

It is good and interesting for many of us to be forced to turn our attention from the flower garden to the vegetable. We discover to our satisfaction such profound truths as......

Fasciation

Different seasons are accompanied by particular freaks of growth in this plant and that. This summer seems to be a season of double- dealing, so to say. I have received by post......

“ The Spectator " Crossword No. 77 [a Prize Of

a Book Token for one guinea will be given to the senaer of the first cot- ect solution of this Week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword......

Solution To Crossword No. 76

SOLUTION NEXT WEEK The winner of Crossword No. 76 is C. C. Coffey, Greystu , 10. Myddleton, Ilkley.......