11 FEBRUARY 1949, page 15

It Was Claimed By 'one Of The Greatest Specialists On

the genus that you could have an iris in blossom in every month of the year. Most of us would meet a blank month in late autumn, but what might be thought the most unlikely......

The Cinema

"The Glass Mountain." (Empire.)—" Sorry, Wrong Number." (Carlton.)—" The History of Mr.'Polly." (Leicester Square.) THE first half of The Glass Mountain, located in England,......

Protective Hedges A Surprising Request Has Reached Me For...

to quote from a piece that I wrote a while ago about a2hedgeless England. The surprise was due to the source of the request. The passage, the lamentation was desired for......

Februa Candlemas Has Been Celebrated As A Church Festival...

some 1,500 years (and as a law festival in Scotland for very many years), and perhaps more directly than any other adopted from a pagan predecessor. Our months mostly derive......

Country Life

DOES any one now read Sir Thomas Browne or, if he reads him, read him for anything else than the force of his language? He was, after all, a good naturalist, and had a certain......

Rearing Birds One Might Suppose That Birds Hid A Knowledge

of the arrival of the close season. At any rate a pair of partridges played happily about my rose garden on the first safe day. They had paired, but kept to the adjacent fields,......

Music

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS'S fourth and sixth symphonies were both played at the Albert Hall this last week, the fourth by the Philharmonia Orchestra under Richard Austin on February 4th......

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