28 OCTOBER 1955, page 28

Tulip Planting Tulip-planting Time Is The End Of This Month

and the early days of November. Cottage tulips are among the most satisfactory for display' in May. Earlier varieties include some wonder - fully bright blooms such as Mme......

'cr Atting'

More references to eel fishing conic from a reader . who lives at Littleton Panell and says that the use of a bundle of worms was known as 'clatting for eels' when she passed......

Country Life

BY IAN NIALL THE habit of celebrating November 5 and the tendency to anticipate the day, in my part of the world, by almost a month is one that may ultimately lead to explosions......

Feathering Fowls

It doesn't often fall to my lot to pluck a fowl, but I once had a frightful struggle to feather a goose at Christmas. Goose grease and feathers adhered to my face as well as my......

Chess

BY PHILIDOR No. 21. SAM LOYD (1892) * ' In The Art of the Checkmate (G. Bell, 12s. 6d.) , Victor Renaud and Georges Kahn have produce d another book of the well-known and......

Tint Subtitle Of This Book Is 'a Book Guide For

parents, teachers and children,' and it should certainly be of great interest to the first two categories. In eight chapters the author describes interviews with children of......

New Novels

`To Shakhat and his seed, the males, for ever.' So reads the dedication of a tomb on the hillside above Palmyra, in stark non• classical contrast to the tall Corinthian......