1 APRIL 1955, Page 53

Many of us will soon be cut off from the

outer world by a dense curtain of mono- tonous green, and we shall not see for six months the delichte tracery of the bare boughs. All will be lush with sporadic wwwilt and a riot of weeds. A prize of 1'5 is offered for a Lament for the Departure of Winter in not more than sixteen lines of verse.