'in My Garden Those Who Make Apple Jelly Of The

abnormal number of windfalls, victims to recent gales, may care to be reminded that no flavouring so delicately enlivens this often dull conserve as a leaf or two of the scented......

Faber Gallery Reproductions

SIR, —Mr. M. H. Middleton in his critical though not unfriendly review of the second four books in the Faber Gallery asks: " What does one say about such picture books?" One......

Remedial Mice And Spiders It Seems That Among Remedies The

mouse takes a very high place in local practice. It was held (in Huntingdonshire, as I wrote last week) to be a cure for' measles. Apparently, it is also appreciated in......

Praying For Rain Sir,— Surely Even Professed Christians...

dismay the Arch- bishop of York's demand for prayers for seasonable weather to be offered in the churches. This is a retrogression to the age of superstition, and as now most......

Country Life

An adjacent wheat-field, from which the produce was safely stacked before the bad weather grew yet worse, was most thoroughly gleaned, and the amount sb recovered was scarcely......

Canal Revival There - Seems To Be Some Real Hope Of A

revival of our canals, destroyed by the railways ; and no one would benefit more surely than the farmers and those who desire undamaged food. A deal of soft fruit simply will......

Janus And Strix

SIR,—I pray you, do not assent to the somewhat cool suggestion that Janus should be superseded by Strix, although the latter is a very agreeable writer. As one of your readers,......

Mushroom Weather Except Perhaps For The Worms, Which Have...

our •lawns, and it may be the well-fed thrushes that have sung exuberantly, the one living thing that seems to have enjoyed the recent weather, in spite of the low temperature,......

Experiment In Fuel

Sm,—The experiment in fuel may be good politics, and so far, of course, it has been a necessity, but for the unfortunate city-dwellers in Eire it has been a severe trial during......

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