13 APRIL 1956, page 35

Blue Hydrangeas

Lieut.-Colonel E. Parbury, of Fairfield, Tenby, offers a correction of my information on the blueing of hydrangeas. The treatment, he says, should be done at leaf If is too late......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL THE world of early morning is a private, quiet place and one should walk gently and tread softly, saying little,' for one's footfalls disturb the peace and the......

New Novels

NOWHERE during the past half-century can more literary nonse n t , s ! have been deposited than in receptacles marked The Futur e ,., 0 the Novel.' Event has invariably......

Litter Lament

There are faintly hopeful signs of official the interest in preventing countryside from becoming littered with rubbish by picnic parties and trippers as it was last year and the......

Spring Sunlight

At this time of year the sun warms a bank, a water-hole or a dried-up ditch, and insect life appears where there seemed to be none before. Without this awakening there would be......

Chess

BY PHILIDOR No. 45 Specially contributed by BLACK (10 men) Solution to last week's problem by Weenink: Kt–Q 4! waiting. 1 . . • B–B 2; 2 Q X Kt. 1 . . B else; 2 Kt–Kt 6. 1 . . .......