4 MARCH 1955, page 14

City And Suburban

By JOHN BETJEMAN 0 one can blame the shopkeepers of the City of Lon- don for lodging a complaint to the Corporation. So far none of the immense cliffs of offices designed for......

Animals That Swim A Friend Asked Me The Other Day

if a stoat can swim, for he was sure he had seen one in the water of a stream, but it got out and eluded him before he could positively identify it. Stoats and weasels are not......

Tomatoes From Seed Tomato Plants Are Easily Raised If One

has a fairly warm frame or greenhouse. Sow the seed in pans at a depth of in. Shade the pans from the light until germination takes place and keep a sheet of glass over the......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL p REOCCUPIED with our own creature comforts since the cold weather returned—as I write this we are still looking • -ut at a garden that seems tidy only because o......

A Gun-dog B, Who Is A Most Competent Trainer Of

gun-dogs, warned me from a distance that the pup was nothing but a fool, and the young Labrador seemed determined to live up to the descrip- tion, for he came diagonally across......

March 6, 1830

THEATRICAL Gossip.—Kean is once more announced as Henry the Fifth. He is anxious, no doubt, to redeem the pledges that have been given to the public on this subject; but for our......