14 MARCH 1952, page 24

Flowers For Summer

If weather cond:tions are right, complete the planting of wallflowers. forget-me-nots and Canterbury bells. Although summer brings displays of perennials of all sorts, annuals......

Threshing Time

They were threshing on the holding. Three men worked round the mill. The noise echoed up the valley, and chaff and straw blew in the wind, finding its way into hedges, strewing......

Country Life

PASTEL shades are for the water-colour artist. The countryman vvh,t1 he paints favours red ochre. vivid blue, brilliant green. Farm imple- ments are given startling colour. It......

A Riverside Tragedy

When I was some distance away, I took the object to be a white duck sitting in at the side of the bank, but as I drew near I saw it was a lamb. As far as I could tell it had......

The Horse - Butcher's Trade For A Long Time I Have Admired

the ponies our local carrier trots to a field farther up the road. They are shaggy mountain-ponies, none of them very old and just the sort of animal for a young boy or girl.......