7 MAY 1954, page 16

Tomato Beds

It is difficult to obtain good manure for tomatoes, but the beds can be enriched by laying turf, grass side down, before the nev i vi , soil is put in, and if one is lucky......

E.g. Mu Fit And Well," "i Have Bee' 0 " ( 1 8 Missioned,"

"Twins born," etc., b.) code numbers on cables to and from persons IA other parts of the world. For the usual Pr i ; of £5 competitors are invited to devise 4 , additional set......

Tion From Shrubs And Hedges. Such A Colony Included Jacky

Winter, Blue Wren, Yellow Robin, Fly-catcher, Honey-eater and many others. On the Chatswood property there are no small birds whatever, although the loca- tion is not more than......

Yesterday I Stopped To Watch Two Men Sowing A Field

with oats. They were doing it in the old-fashioned way, as my grandfather used to do it—by hand from buckets. It looks so simple, this hand-sowing of seed, but it is an art.......

Country Life

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The Five-pound Limerick

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 218 Report by Allan M. Laing SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 218 Report by Allan M. Laing Are good limericks still being concocted? The usual prize was......