6 SEPTEMBER 1940, page 11

Country Life

THE extreme beauty of our Augustan nights has been enhanced, though disturbed, by the patterns of searchlights. The small units of men who direct these from many a quiet field......

The Cinema ,

...Br. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet." A the Warner. — " Tom Brown's Schooldays." At the New Gallery. 15 this column last week certain remarks, which might be r egarded as......

Late Ploughs Seldom Has The Distinction Between Northern...

England been more strongly pronounced. The corn has been cut and carried in the South, and, more than this, a very large amount of ground has been ploughed. The ploughs have......

Experimental Cuttings !

A distinguished man of science is engaged in an endeavour to grow potatoes from cuttings of the haulm and thus not only to save seed, which is always expensive, but prevent......

War And Migration It Seems That War Years (long Famous

among vine-growers) have a special reputation among observers of birds. They seem to promote migration, which incidentally is a better word than evacuation. It is stated in the......

Unwise Pruning Writing To Corroborate The Heterodox View...

is a mistake to prune apple trees, a correspondent asks whether other fruits benefit by the neglect of attention. Pruning is of course a nice art. If it is not done very well it......