Country Life
As this year's harvest opened so prosperously we heard with sadness of the death of Sir Rowland Biffen, the greatest perhaps of all benefactors to English corn. His creation of......
Pougher Of Leicester
Sui,—Wirden has already supplied the details for which Mr. Mallalieu asks. A. D. Pougher died in 1926, and there is an account of his career in the 1927 edition (Part I, pp.......
Mendel 's Followers
Awhile ago, by an arrangement between the universities, it was agreed that Oxford should concentrate on the economic side, and Cambridge on the scientific ; and the division of......
In The Garden Onc Of The Present Activities In My
garden is the rooting up of alstrurneria. This lily is a favourite of mine, but in its more common form (the newer colours arc much less rampant) it spreads outrageously, like......
Enosis
Sra,—I did not seek to defend, only to explain, "Enosis." Its use as the name of a political movement for the unification of Cyprus and Greece has no doubt puzzled many who......
Rifles At Bisley
Sta,—David James's article, Ashburton Day, in the Spectator of July 1,5th, was ,welcome. Considering the popularity of rifle-shooting—which is much more widespread than the......
Melanistic _theories.
On the subject of melanism and black rabbits, letters from Ireland assure me that it is a general belief that black rabbits, with white marks on the cheek, arc the product of a......
The Battle Of Sydney Street Sir, —referring To Your Note In
the Spectator of July 15th on the "Battle of Sydney Street," at which I was present, I can say that there was a universal belief that there were three men at the outset,......
Honey Colour
Last week some 20 lb. of run honey was taken from a hive in my garden. It is excellent honey but dark almost to the point of blackness in the jar. A good deal of this year's......
Headmasters
SIR,—" Ex-assistant Master's" proposal of a five-year tenure for head- masters fills me with horror. In my experience it takes at least a year, some- times two, for a new......
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