27 SEPTEMBER 1940, page 11

Good Poisons One Of The Better Known Gardens For The

production of Rock Garden plants has been given up largely to the growing of Belladonna. Poison is substituted for beauty : such is the influence of war, even on gardens Happily......

Kindly Fruits The Popularity Of The Wild Blackberry Has...

never been so manifest as this autumn. The better part of the rural popula- tion has been about the hedgerows and has found a most welcome harvest. It is still a common......

The Cinema

Entertainment Films in War-time IT is perhaps too often assumed that the impact of war causes cataciv‘mic changes in film technique. In point of fact—at any rate as far as the......

Country Life

Rural Bombs The bombs, explosive, igneous and oily, that have been sprinkled with careless generosity over meadow, tilth, stubble, spinney and churchyard have made apparent a......

A Prodigy A Botanical Prodigy, Discussed In The Latest...

of the little green quarterly, the Countryman, is represented by that popular berry the Logan. A few years ago I heard one of our experts in botanical science deny scornfully......