The Crown Of Thorns
A card from a Glasgow reader asks about birds eating blackberries, and remarks that although the writer gathered some 200 lb. of blackberries each war year, he never saw a sign......
Grease Bands Grease-banding Is A September Task If The...
moths and other crawling insects are to be intercepted on their way to the higher branches. Remember to band the stakes as well as the trunks. Bands should be roughly ten inches......
Country Life
BY IAN NIALL IF the boys sitting on the walls and standing at the crossings on Sunday afternoons in little villages in my part of the world used to specu- late where the cars......
Chess
BY PHILIDOR No. 16. Specially contributed by PHILIP BARRON BLACK, 4 nicu. WHITE to play and mate in 2 moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Gooderson:......
New Novels
THE LAMB. By Francois Mauriac. Translated by Gerard Hopkins. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 12s. 6d.) IN The Lamb, M. Mauriac's Bruin Boys are back at school again, behaving much as......
Pine Needles
'Are pine needles harmful to a lawn?' I was asked not long ago. I have looked after grass —not a lawn—beneath pine trees and feel that a heavy deposit of needles such as that......
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