In My Garden I Cling To The Obstinate View That
pruning of apples, as of roses, is overdone ; and one of the best forms of pruning is the least widely practised, that is summer pruning or pinching. It is curious how some few......
Country Life
Norringc has more strikingly illustrated the complete and surpriiing disappearance of the coney from many districts- than the reaping of our most excellent harvest. The new......
A Poison- Plant • Odd Coincidences Occur. The, Subject Came
up one day last week of the poisdnous nature of the pyrethruth, which 'supplies the belt of insect destroyers:. Was the' garden hybrid pyrethrum also poisonous? On the following......
Hiroshima Sir, —one Question Seems To Have Been...
the discussions on the use of the atomic bomb, namely, what kind of city precisely was Hiroshima? At the time of the bombing the statement was made that Hiroshima was an......
Birds And Wires Haa The Admirable Device Of Putting Corks
or other visible warnings on telegraph wires quite . " fallen into desuetude," in the phrase of ,an Oxford Don accounting.for the dunes he had neglected? . My experience is that......
Refrigerated Eggs
Sur,—I see that " Countryman " has been reading the recent correspon- dence in The Times regarding the hatching of eggs, and I think an experi- ence of my own might interest......
Science And Secrecy
SIR, —One read Professor A. V. Hill's article " Science and Secrecy " with interest and yet felt that it demonstrated what the professor had no intention of doing, the necessity......
Dead Languages Sir, —mr. Harold Nicolson Writes In "...
" of Greek and Latin as " those extremely dead languages." I will not comment on the interesting implication in the word " extremely " that there are degrees of death, but I......
Rich And Early
As I write, I hear the not disagreeable hum of a tractor-drawn three- furrowed plough (or plow) persuading an ungleaned stubble to take on " the good gigantic smile of the brown......
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