27 MARCH 1953, page 17

Kew Gardens

People, scattered on the ground like bulbs, grown here complete in coloured scarf and coat, borne on a tide of blue-veined crocus float through the lawns, swirling about the......

Spring Legend

Crocus was legend then, primrose hearsay like talk of old women, the gossip at winter's gate. Sun is a new age now, a golden tale of explorers and kings, the leaf in stone and......

Spectator Competition No. 163

Set by Lucilio The usual prizes are offered for an address by a postman to the much-bombed E II R pillar-box in Edinburgh, or for a• complaint by that unfortunate pillar-box to......

Spectator Competition No. 16o

Report by Joyce Johnson Prizes were o f fered for a soliloquy by any well-known statue in a public place. A good entry, both in quality and quantity. Numerically, Nelson beat......