English-speaking Germans
Sta,—I fail to see why your correspondent, Mr. R. P. Delling, should regard the fact that one-third of Janus's audience of German prisoners understood English to be a comparison......
A Bad Butterfly
There seems to be one exception to the statement that no butterflies do any harm except the Cabbage Whites. A great authority tells me that the Painted Lady is an enemy of the......
In My Garden The Herbaceous Border Is Wont To Become
a rather untidy and sombre ribbon in October, apart from its dahlias, chrysanthemums, montbretias and Michaelmas daisies, which do not all consent to an easy mutual relation......
Country Life
WE all know how many good and beautiful trees were felled during the war ; and they gave us more useful timber than anyone had thought possible. What is not generally known is......
Resistant Apples There Is General Agreement That Cox's...
is the best eating (to use our odd idiom) apple ; but there is no agreement about the next on the list. On one, that seems to me wholly admirable, there is violent disagreement......
Planning And Herrings
Snt—May I make a belated reply to Sir Murdoch McKenzie Wood's observations in The Spectator of September 13th? The fundamental error in Sir Murdoch's argument lies in his......
Mr. Shinwell's Nonsense "
SIR,—Your paragraph under the heading of Coal and Current in your issue of September loth seemed to me to deal with Mr. Shinwell's attitude to electricity supply with......
Alleged Lilies After Visiting Palestine Some Years Ago...
the course of botanical wanderings admiring the carpets of scarlet anemones, I was quite con- vinced that by the "lilies" of the Bible was meant the anemones ; but there is a......
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