Mauriac And Caviare
MADAME PRUNIER'S La Maison (Longman, 21s.) is a long way above most histories of individual lirms, which are usually resolute pieces of pub- licity in a thin disguise. True, the......
Leaf Curl A Reader Asks About The Treatment Of Leaf
curl found in stone fruits in this sort of weather. Lime sulphur or Bordeaux mixture are preventives, leaf curl being a fungus disease, but the immediate action is to pick off......
Water Supply
'When we lived at X,' remarked the old man, 'we 'ad a fine ole time gettin' water. Every summer about now the well run dry or got so low you couldn't get muter. Landlord was a......
Feeding Woodpecker
Green woodpeckers are oftener to be found feeding on the ground than in trees just now, for ant colonies are active in the heat and stream about grassy mounds like citizens in......
New Novels
IT is a good thing that Mary McCarthy's first novel, The Company She Keeps, has been made available again; first published fourteen years ago, it has been difficult to get hold......
Country Life
By IAN NIALL THE scent of freshly cut hay drifted down the slope to where I walked this evening. Flies were congre- gating under the overhanging trees, and I had to brush my way......
Chess
By PHILIDOR No. 107. J. BUNTING ('British Chess Magazine,' 1950) III ACK (9 men) wHITE (10 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next Week. Solution to last week's......
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