28 NOVEMBER 1947, page 14

In My Garden We Appreciate Flowers In Part By The

duration of the flowering period. Roses, violas—especially gracilis, perhaps—valerians and marigolds are valued on this account. The weeping willow boasts such a quality. Mine......

Unfallen Leaves

Someone recorded the other day that he accidentally scorched an apple- tree with a garden bonfire, with the strange result that the scorched boughs presently produced a crop of......

Flight Up The Persian Gulf

The mountains beside the sea are golden-barren In the bright sunshine as Midas, and the sea Luminous turquoise green with milky edges, And tiny boats bird-seed specks along the......

Punctual Birds Some Very Persuasive Corroboration Has...

the strangely punctual habits of certain birds in Iceland. There is a small island in a park lake which is thickly populated with terns in summer, and it has been alleged again......

Art

JoHN TUNNARD'S new exhibition at the Lefevre Gallery shows him moving—as Piper and other painters of romantic temperament have moved before him—steadily, if slowly, away from......

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Country Life

ONE or two rather surprising facts have been brought out in the course of the present intensive study of the lamentably extensive river pollution. It has been an agreeable......