Chess

By P HI LIDOR No. 108. E. HOLLADAY (American Chess Bulletin, Sept., 1956) BLACK (7 men) WHITE (8 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last......

Tomato Care

Humidity resulting from watering in a greenhouse after a hot day makes the progress of rust and fungus disease rapid. As a remedy Bordeaux mixture can be used or one of the......

Stone-breaker

The other day I had to slow down to let a lorry turn and unload a mountain of granite chippings in one of those cut-backs that used to shelter, in the long ago, the loneliest......

Old Mills

Don Quixote tilted at windmills, but there were enough of them about in his day. When a reader sent me a little brochure published by the Society for the Protection of Ancient......

Henry Morse

Henry Morse : Priest of the Plague, by Philip Caraman (Longmans, 18s.), is a hagiographical life of a Jesuit active in England under Charles L There was little unusual in......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL AN expression of wisdom concerning the falling of rain on the just and the unjust involves a cliché, but there is equal truth in a remark about the activities of......