In The Garden An Agricultural Labourer Who Did Some Rough
gardening for me cut off all the flowers of that strange bush Viburnum Rhitidophyllum, because he thought they were dead relics! How soon many of the viburnutns form their......
Country Life
AN open winter is not assured till we begin to approach the first of spring. Last year's late weather is sharply recalled by an account of the loss of birds which was inost......
An Artist And Dr. Barnardo's
Sta,—Your book critic, Mr. Osbert Lancaster, in your issue of January 16th, refers to the recently published life of Mr. Heath Robinson. To my mind he stood alone as a humorous......
County Pride
All this agitation among the organisers of local government for the extinction of counties or robberies of bits of shires coincides with a notable and most welcome revival of......
" Spectators " For India
Stu,—We have received a letter from India from our missionary sisters, who are just opening a new university college in Madras; and who are very anxious to obtain for their......
Finally Resolved
Sta,—With all due deference to " &mix " and to Mr. J. W. Potter, I venture to assert that the Inland Revenue financial year commences on April 1st and its fiscal year on April......
A Correction
WE regret that in a letter published last week from Sir Geoffrey Whiskard, the figure for the United States contribution to the total cost of the war was printed as £10,110 m.......
London As Sanctuary
Even London cultivates county pride, as witness a book now in prepara- tion "on county history lines" dealing with the avifauna of the more typical habitats, migration, and the......
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