In The Garden In Criticism Of A Controversy On The
respective merits of planting or transplanting in autumn or spring a nurseryman who bears a name famous in horticulture sends me these words of wisdom: "The facts are that,......
Killing A County
Sns,—As Mr. Peacock shows in his Killing a County, the arguments against the obliteration of Herefordshire are twofold—those based on reason and those based on emotion. With the......
The Happy Craftsman Most People, As Horace And Doubtless...
have pointed out, desire to swap occupations with someone else. Now I was talking with It village blacksmith, who is a born artist, sprung of a long line of artists, and I said......
Too Fast
Sm,—In seeking to correct Strix, Mr. J. W. Potter has himself fallen into error. New Year's Day for the Commissioners of Inland Revenue......
Rivers In Flood When I Hear Of The Rising Of
rivers and the threat of flooding, I think always of one particular scene on the banks of the Wye. This lovely river swells much more quickly than most. It can achieve, say, six......
Country Life
THE plan to Make Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City into what is to be virtually one township has a satiric emphasis in the ears of some residents. There was once a signpost......
S P E Ct E A T R
SUBSCRIPTION RATES :- 52 weeks. £ s. d. Great Britain and Overseas by ordinary mail 1 10 0 Air Mail to Members of the Forces in any part of the World ... ... 2 12 0 Air Mail to......
A Royal Protest
SIR, —Does not the infallible Mr. Janus slip up when he acquiesces in the dictum of the smart man of the Post Office that the British Parlia- ment met at Oxford either before or......
Eccentric Centres
In cutting up a fallen elm, I fmd that the growth on the south-east side was twice or even three times as wide as on the north-west, so that the centre of the annual rings was......
Love And Age
Stu,—I hope that Mr. Harold Nicolson will answer the interesting questions put by Mr. Sykes about M. Queval's research into English love affairs. May I be allowed to add one......
The Local Weekly
Sm, — Mr. L. C. Lloyd's article is most interesting. In the R.A.F. in the Middle East between 1942 and 1944, and-particularly in the Western Desert where reading matter of any......
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