7 AUGUST 1953, page 13

Green Potatoes Work In The 'garden At The Height Of

summer is endless. Weeds grow overnight. The hedge sprouts after every shower of rain and the lawn rises like magic. With so many weeds spreading in the kitchen garden, it was......

Ballet

The Rambert Ballet. Sadler's Wells. AT the moment, there are three companies dancing in London, and although the most modest in size is also—at the Sadler's Wells Theatre—the......

Barrel Strawberries

Strawberries can be grown quite well in a barrel that has a number of two-inch holes cut in its slats. It takes up very little space, and with the help of a few sticks can......

The Morass

Cattle have trampled the banks of the stream until they are com- pletely brpken down and, once past the pool where the cows are in the habit of standing, swishing their tails at......

Stick Cutting While I Was Cutting Hazel Sticks, Lopping Them

off and trimming them with a hedging knife, it began to rain. The first drops spattered on the hazel leaves and on my uncovered head. At the same moment I discovered a thousand......

New Works By Berkeley And Arnold.

lon those who spend the rest of the year listening to music in the Festival Hall a return to the Albert Hall is bewildering; and any composer whose work has a first hearing......

In My Childhood A Farmyard Chicken Was A Resourceful Bird.

It gleaned the stackyard, it picked the midden, and it nested when it could without detection, and sometimes brought off a brood of chickens from a nettlebed or a roll of old......