7 JULY 1973, page 28

What's It All About?

Bernard Dixon A moratorium on undesirable re search — it's a beguilingly attractive idea, much mulled over these days by some advocates of ' social responsibility in science.'......

A Fig For Gardens Denis Wood

In thinking of plants to clothe south-facing walls in the warmer parts of the country, the ancient fig is often overlooked. Its large, distinguished, three-lobed leaves, harking......

Juliette's Weekly Frolic

An odds-on winner, a ' win-only ' third and a stayer that never started — but was greedily backed ante-post — are not the stuff of which great fortunes are made. However, the......

Country Life Corning Up Roses Peter Quince

At this season of roses I often wonder, subversively, whether all the trouble men have taken, over innumerable centuries, to multiply and elaborate the rose has been as......