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......