Mr. Priestley's Garden City
am surprised that, in the Spectator of October 7th, your reviewer Maurice Cranston, writing of Mr. Priestley's book, Delight, and men- tioning the latter's "own ideal community"......
The English Vineyard
It is a standing query why the vineyard has disappeared from England, and we do not often see the vine over the cottage porch which impressed itself on poets as late as Keats.......
In The Garden
We think of most of our herbaceous plants in the rough borders as quite hardy ; but they do not completely justify the reputation. It is wise to give cover to those we are......
The Humanities And Science Sir, —it Seems To Me That The
answer to Mr. Findlay's letter is simple. Science is concerned with facts ; the humanities with values. To be an "educated man" in the fullest sense, an understanding of......
The 1951 Exhibition
SIR,—I am entirely in agreement with Janus that the 1951 Exhibition project had better be dropped in our hard-up circumstances. It would mean an immediate and tangible economy......
The Farmers' Finance
SIR —My friend, Mr. Worth, is a first-rate farmer, and he lives in 3 district justly famous for its progressive attitude and high output. It is, therefore, not surprising that......
The Steel Toothed Trap
Sus,—After living in the west country for over four years, one cannot help wondering how it is that farmers and trappers make no secret of the fact that their traps are set just......
Trees Or Starvation Some Congratulations Are Deserved By...
of the Trees, so called, on reaching their silver jubilee, which is suitably celebrated in the issue of Trees and the New Earth, from Abbotsbury, Dorset. The starvation of the......
Northern Butterflies
My own experience this autumn has been that butterflies were as scarce as wasps were many ; but a correspondent from Scotland writes of the quite exceptional number of Red......
Country Life
WHIcn season of the year have we been enjoying, spring or autumn ? That we "scatter the good seed on the land" is a true version of the activity of the date ; and the seed......
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