In My Garden The Hybridisers Have Done Better Work Than
is widely appreciated. Most of us grow the evergreen ceanothus, which flowers early, and the deciduous group which flowers late. The two classes have been crossed with excellent......
The Boy's World?
SIR,—May I briefly and amiably argue with Mr. Basil Wright? I saw, a few nights ago, his own film and the film (Zero de Conduite) which he reviews in last week's Spectator. His......
A Russian Satirist
Sm,—Mr. Harold Nicolson, referring in his Marginal Comment to the recent attack on the periodicals Zvesda and Leningrad, says that he knows nothing of either Zoshchenko, who has......
A New Anatomy
Sta,—A copy of The Spectator containing Janu.s's comments on Trollopolatry has just reached me. Perhaps Trollope-lovers may be interested in the following tale. I found myself......
Among The First Of The Birds To Announce (both By
their absence anct presence) the arrival of autumn, are the swifts—birds, in some places, almost as fond of the towns as of the country. They come late and go early, like the......
Country Life
IN the many discussions on the parlous state of the grain harvest, especially on the, danger of the ears sprouting in the sheaf, I notice that the word " stook " is much more......
• The End Of Summer Is Th' E Theme Of
a letter from one of our beneficent workers in Greece. "In the village (in Epirus) there is a rather pretty soft-leaved shrub svith - a flower the colour of 4ceanothus......
Class B Release Fo J R. Students Sir,—some Two Or Three...
ago, you printed a letter about the unsatisfactory position of, and feeling of frustration among, under- graduates Whose career and studies . have . ' been interrupted by Army......
Independent Or Liberal?
Sta,—" Sir Ernest [Simon] has always hitherto been known as a staunch Liberal." Is your memory worse than mine? I thought that Sir Ernest was a Parliamentary candidate, not many......
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