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In The Garden In One Demonstrative But Also Economic Garden

the covers of the Duli. frames (which nursed crops of various vegetables sown simultaneousl are now cleared off and the space is occupied by bush vegetable marrow which are......

The Plover's Nest In A Neighbouring Field A Number Of

small boys were helping—or hindering—in the work of clearing the potato crop, when one of the workers discovered a plover's nest. They were filled with excitement at the......

Fiction

Growing Up and Other Stories. By Edward Gaitens. (Jonathan 4. I Am the World. By Peter Vansittart. (Chatto and Windus. 98. 6d.) 8. Ficriort continues to drowse along. One can in......

A Wealth Of Flowers The "flaming June" That We Are

experiencing has some flames that are bright far beyond the normal. There is, to give a particular example, a large locust-tree which brushes against a mill so old that it is......

The Faber Book Of Comic Verse. Compiled By Michael Roberts

(Faber. 8s. 6d.) MR. ROBERTS has not burdened himself or us with a definition. Enough that most of the nonsense, parody and comic satire which he has included is English, though......

Preservation Of Vermin Pleas Have Been Made For The...

of such vermin as stoat and weasels and indeed otters. What line are we to adopt regardin queen wasps? Personally I never kill them, having so often watche wasps engaged in......

Country Life

IT was the last stage in the haymaking. In front a heavy farm horse was pulling a side-delivery rake, and behind followed a cart into which the rakings were pitched. Hands were......

Shorter Notices

The Plays of J. M. Barrie. The Definitive Edition. Edited by A. E. Wilson. (Hodder and Stoughton. 30s.) THE reputation of Barrie became clouded some years before his death ;......