18 OCTOBER 1946, page 13

A Plant Compass While Most Native Trees And Most Bushes

are delaying their gift of autumn coloration the vine that we used to call Ampelopsis Veitchii has been singularly punctual and splendid. It is a glorious creeper with a curious......

Art

THERE occurs currently, whether by chance or design I do not know, • a most interesting opportunity to compare the work of two of our most eminent sculptors. Miss Barbara......

Country Life

A NATURALIST of no little fame went out one day this summer to look at a nest of the short-eared owl in some rough ground near his house. He found the nest empty of eggs and the......

A Be - Devilled Fruit We Have All Heard Of The Local

superstition that blackberries must not be eaten after the last day of September: the Devil has poisoned them ; but I was surprised to discover that the berry is totally avoided......

The Cinema

" The Magic Bow." At the Odeon, Marble Arch.--'i A Girl in a Million." At the Marble . Arch Pavilion.—"All Quiet on the Western Front." NeW London Film Society. THERE has been......

In My Garden The Gourds, Especially The Marrows, Are Just

beginning to wake up, to run and flower and set fruit in abundance. Since we have already had ground frosts, this belated activity is likely to be useless ; but something may be......

Sauce Alone A Local Name, Quite Unknown To Me, Has

lately been reported to me ; and it would be interesting to know where, if anywhere, it is still current. " Sauce Alone" is the charming name and it was used, I believe, of the......

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