26 SEPTEMBER 1947, page 13

Country Life

SEVERAL very odd incidents in natural history may be recorded from different parts of England. The strangest concerns a sparrowhawk and a cat. The hawk descended again and again......

Favourite Apples This Year's Experience Confirms My...

the best of eating apples, of course after Cox, is Saint Everard, in respect both of taste and consistency, and it is a small apple. Its predecessor in date, Langley's Pippin,......

In My Garden

It is an old problem how to persuade a hydrangea to produce blue flowers ; but, whatever method is advised, there are always some growers who find that buried razor-blades or......

Robots That Blessed, Or Accursed, Word, Mechanisation, Is...

of the grain farm, but the machine advances in all sorts of farming, not least in fruit farming. I know quite a small fruit farmer who thought it well worth while to spend £500......

On The Air

K. B. INDOE, who produced Emanuel Litvinoff's drama for broad- casting, The Star was Death, in the Home Service on Wednesday, must have enjoyed himself immensely. So did I in......

Music

THE Vienna State Opera have raised a strange diversity of critical opinion, and the days are manifestly past when England accepted more or less open-mouthed any body of singers......