7 MARCH 1947, page 15

Exhibition

IF one leaves the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition with the dan- gerous illusion that all is well with British industry, then at least, in these bleak days. it is a very sweet......

In My Garden A Useful Note On The Loveliest Of

all winter flowers has reached me. The darker variety of the Algerian iris is found, at any rate in Northern Ireland, to be a better "doer " than the paler forms, and to come......

Country Life

AMONG the letters that arrived on the same morning were, first, a most welcome and surprising suggestion from the Ministry of Agri- culture that birds should be fed, as......

Horne Fires In A Log Fire, The Discussion Of Which

has been proceeding off and on for several hundred years and is not yet exhausted, the size makes more difference than the nature of the wood. The truest of the old tags is:......

Ruined Rivers Hardly A Week Passes In Which I Do

not hear some ill news of one or other of our rivers. The latest concerns the Usk, where in certain reaches every salmon—and a great number of them—has been killed br poisoning......

Postage On This Issue : Inland, Lid.; Overseas, Ld.

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A Table Tip A Lover Of Birds, To The Exclusion

of the stare or starling, has suc- cessfully practised the following device, which " has for years defeated the Hun." He has made a balance tray, which is attached to a hinge,......