3 JULY 1941, page 14

Railway Flowers

I do not recall ever seeing a word in praise of railway-flowers ; not the flowers of the country-station, but of the cuttings. In early spring the primroses in the south were as......

Country Life

Wildfowl Inquiry It is a fairly long time since I was able to give any news of the International Committee for Bird Preservation. Perhaps I hardly need to say that this war has......

Walking Pike On A Hot Evening The Water Was Bright,

like brown-golden wine, and the fish were not biting well. They were walking on the water. All evening you could see this happening. Wherever the water-lilies were thick enough......

Euthanasia

SOMETIMES Death tires of all the old and tattered Souls that stand thronging at his dark iron gate, Of eyes lack-lustre and of limbs scar-shattered, Aims for a child and lets......

In The Garden

There are several methods of saving tomato-seed. The best I have seen is also the simplest. Fruit is taken from selected plants (I have seen a plant of Plumpton King recently,......

The Cinema

4 , Western Union." At the Gaumont.-- , . I Wanted Wings." At the Plaza and the Carlton. Western Union is a title that conjures up so many romantic vistas of American life that......