23 JULY 1954, page 17

Gossips And Gardeners

Competitors were asked to imagine that a newspaper editor had reshuffled his staff and to submit an extract front the gossip column written by the gardening expert or the......

Country Life

ONE could almost make a record of the course of summer weather by putting down the growth of the lawn and the privet hedge. Although we had rain in the period following Whitsun.......

Layering Layering Carnations Is A Simple Business And...

done now by slitting the stem beneath a node and firming the portion to he layered in the soil. The new plant will he ready to be severed from the parent in about a month to six......

Young Cuckoo An Interesting Story Of The Devotion Shown

to a young cuckoo by its loster-parcnts was sent to me from a correspondent living in Hampshire, who describes how her daughter discovered their terrier watching something at......

An Old Saying

Surely, says one reader, the point about spring kittens is that they can be house-trained more cosily when the soil is dug in the garden, and another writes that it is •a......

--'conw Into The Garden; I Want My Roses To See

you.' Could a more graceful compliment be paid to anyone? A prize of£5, which may be divided, is offered for the most charming cympliment submitted, which may be either quoted......