27 OCTOBER 1950, page 13

Country Life

I wAs wandering along one of the green rides (disused mediaeval roads) that criss-cross the plateau of the Essex uplands above Saffron Walden, when I encountered a tree laden......

In The Garden.

It will soon be time to take up some celery, after the first frosts have sweetened it. And parsnips too ; these lack flavour until the winter has touched them. Meanwhile a glut......

The Economic Revolution In Essex.

I knew Essex intimately in the doldrum days between the two world wars. It was then almost a derelict county, with farms and villages falling into rural slummery, and its......

Letters To The Editor

" WORLDS IN COLLISION " SIR,—The Astronomer Royal had done me the honour of writing a review of Worlds in Collision (the Spectator, September 22nd). He des- cribes the contents......

The British In East Africa

Sm,—I have read the article in your issue of September 22nd by Mr. Hitchcock, of Tanganyika, about the problems of that territory. The writer says that to introduce the Kenya......