25 MARCH 1955, page 15

Despite The Slowing Of Growth In Late Winter It Will

shortly be time to lime sulphur spray fruit trees. To winter wash and then neglect the buds and blossom is to spoil the chances of a good crop.......

The Unlucky P-i-g

Writing about pigs that swim, a friend sends me a cutting from the Berwick Journal describing the adventures of a pig that fell into the river at Tweedmouth—it died from shock......

It Is Perhaps A Little Late To Refer To St.

Valentine's Day. but I was interested to have a bit of weather lore concerning this day in a letter from a lady who lives in Manchester. I have always wondered about the rain......

City And Suburban

BY JOHN BETJEMAN M [SS EVIE HONE, the stained-glass artist, known 'over here for east windows of Eton Chapel and St. Michael's, Highgate, died while at Mass last week at......

Went Back To The Road Thinking That I Had Lost

three weeks from the season.......