24 MAY 1940, page 15

In The Purple It Is Sometimes Interesting To Decide...

as they do each week at Kew, which is the loveliest thing in the garden at particular dates. In my patch I am quite sure at the moment that the prize goes to a bush of the......

The War Garden All War-time Gardeners Should Take Note Of

certain results obtained in Lincolnshire and other places regarding the potato crop. Potato diseases are much more common and disastrous in gardens and allotments than elsewhere......

Out-of-date Food There Came An Almost Exact Moment When The

tits in the garden, who had fed greedily on the nuts provided for them, ceased to pay the least attention to the feast ; the caterpillars had hatched out. Already the old birds......

Country Life

Scottish Migrants By way of personal letters and newspapers I continue to receive evidence that in Scotland, if nowhere else, enforced migration from the towns has inspired......

War Weather The Hoary Jest About The Old Gaffer Who,

told there was a war on, said : " Anyway, they've got a fine day for it," has been strangely justified, again and again. I never remember more lovely days than those I spent in......

The Cinema

Empire Film Week. At the Tatler.—.. Mein Kampf—My Crimes." At the Regal. THE enterprise of Donald Taylor, of Strand Films, in organising a special Empire Film Week at The Tatter......