26 MAY 1950, page 9

Parasites And Pests

By H. D. WALSTON G ARDENERS and fruit-growers have for long used chemical sprays as a means of combating insect pests, while on the Continent arsenical compounds have been used......

Wavell Of Cyrenaica

By PETER FLEMING N N immense, patient strength—perhaps that is the quality in Lord Wavell which seems, now that he is dead, the most important part of his character. With it......