In The Garden The Flower-pot That Disappears—it Is Made, I
think, chiefly of peat— is a godsend to the rather lazier gardener who does not possess a " green thumb." It enables you, of course, to put out your seedlings without any......
Community Bach
SIR,--Mr. Martin Cooper suggests that the audience of Bach's Passion music might participate next year in the chorales. Admittedly a large proportion of the audience is familiar......
Youth And The Empire
SIR,—It is tragic that little or nothing is taught about the British Empire in the schools of Britain. I had this fact confirmed recently when acting as question-master in a......
Country Life
THE art of local history lost its most able exponent when Mr. Reginald Hine died at Hitchin on the eve of Easter. He was on the way to finish a full-dress history of......
Theodore Roosevelt
SIR,—The Massachusetts Institute of Technology are preparing for publication a complete edition of the letters of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, at the......
Sweden And The Pact
SIR,—In an article by Alan Ivimey, in the Spectator of April 1st, entitled . Sweden and the Pact, appeared these words: " She already co-operates With the Marshall Plan, though,......
The Perplexed Voter
StR,—Mr. Trevelyan's suggestion that the Liberal Party should make an election agreement with Tories or Socialists means, as he must surely appreciate, the Liberal Party's......
An Intelligent Trout On A Charming Trout Stream Which Had
avoided the pollution that had destroyed the waters in neighbouring valleys, two observers on different reaches watched a startling phenomenon, and one of them noted a most......
Threatened Plants Plants Need Protection As Well As...
the botanists say'that there is especial danger of the complete loss of certain plants characteristic of the marsh. We have been so thoroughly polishing up the English......
A Seeding System
A simple little device for multiplying some plants has succeeded beyond expectation in one small paddock. The owner in idle moments bent down and lightly buried the heads of......
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