28 MAY 1948, page 14

A Sport Whenever I Come Across A Book On Trees

I look first at the Lombardy poplar to seek comment on a strange fact, once imparted to me by Sir Arthur Hill when Director of Kew Gardens. After special study, both botanic and......

Art

QurrE the most important exhibition of painting in London at the moment is that at the Tate, with which the Trustees have very properly attempted to commemorate the prodigious......

In The Garden The Tulips Begin To Drop Their Petals

; and there is a general idea that the best way of preserving the plant from degeneration is to dig it up for a while. No doubt the belief is well justified, but there are......

Music

IT was a great feat on the part of the Morley College Concerts Society to give a performance of Monteverde's Coronation of Poppaea at the Central Hall. As one of the......

Ringers Of Birds The Ringers Of Birds, Such As The

owner of the ingenious cage at Skokholm, are being imitated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Last year a very large number of salmon and sea trout were marked both......

A Manurial Duel I See That .the Warfare Between The

composters and the students of artificial manures . grows yet more acute. Lady Seton, for example, who has done yeoman service for a score of years, not least on behalf of urban......

Country Life

How completely the standard dates for this and that event in natural history have been disregarded! The roses, which belong to June, blazed in mid - May. That earliest of all......