31 DECEMBER 1954, page 16

Straw Coverings Perhaps The Most Useful Thing A Garden Can

do just now is to sec that his more frose d prone vegetables are protected. Straw sholli be used to cover the heads of celery, crown ° of rintharb or anything else that might MO......

New Year Telegrams

The usual prize was offered for an alphabetical telegram (1.e. of 26 words, the first beginning with A, the second with B, and so on) suitable for sending at the New Year to any......

Cock Hackles

Not long ago I took to tying my own flies and making a collection of furs and feathers, silks and tinsels that go to make such things as a March Brown, a Black Gnat or I......

Cinema Lilacs In Spring. (london Pavilion.) Seven Brides...

Brothers. (Empire.) MAY I begin by wishing a Happy New Year to all people who love cinemas, to those who go into them to escape from Ve, to learn more of life, to kiss their......

Spectator Competition No. 255 Set By D. R. Peddy A

prize of £5 is offered for an extract from a speech on the lines of the American 'State of the Union' message by the head of one of the following : Ruritania, Lilliput, Wonder-......

Country Life

SINCE I found my first partridge's nest at a very early age I have always taken a great interest in the little brown birds. The past two seasons have been bad for the partridge......

Australian Birds

Writing of the Tawny Frogmouth which often saves its life by imitating a dead branch! an Australian friend, Mr. Max Henry 01 Chatswood, sends me an interesting letter on what......