7 FEBRUARY 1941, page 15

A Sherborne Deportee

SIR,—The letter which you published some time ago from Mr. S. J. Benham on a Winchester College boy describes treatment in some respects similar to that received by a Sherborne......

In The Garden If Onions Are Once Again To Be

the scarcest winter vegetable it is a fairly safe bet that tomatoes will be the scarcest of all market produce during the coming summer. At this time in 1940 excellent Canary......

Mr. Piper's Heresies

s rR ,....4n the course of his kindly attack on me Mr. Clough Williams- pais advocates the removal of as many as possible of the Wren churches "to less boorish and less menacing......

Wild Daphne Reports Of The Localities In Which Daphne...

grows wild have been few—but rather because of the rareness of correspondents, I fear, than of localities. But it is interesting to hear of it from three counties: Wiltshire,......

Raasdonders A Dutch Correspondent (or A Correspondent...

sympathies) sends me details of a " highly nourishing, well-flavoured food " of which, at least as a food, I have not heard before. This is none other than tares, which is......

Country Life

" A Shaming Record " The countryside, I think, can supply a comment or two on " the shaming record " of the appalling road-accident figures for December. One of those comments......

" Cackle-pie "

SIR,— Interest in wild birds, and in small birds especially, has been described as a modern phenomenon, and perhaps one of the oddest paradoxes of our age is that though......