14 NOVEMBER 1941, page 10

Night Flight

AL FAR% Wezen, Hamal, Nath, Guide me on my aery path ; Denebola, Procyon, Bless the wings that I fly on ; Acrux, Altair, I?eneb, Shaula, Bring me brightness in my dolour ;......

A Great Botanist The Loss Of Sir Arthur Hill, The

Director of Kew Gardens, will cause the widest regrets, not least in South Africa. He had many rare gifts of character and intelligence. - Perhaps I may give one small example......

In The Garden The Present Month, Often Regarded In England

as a dead time in the garden, is one of the busy months among French gardeners or maraichers, and indeed Dutch gardeners. The very early vegetables or primeurs with which they......

Snakes Versus Snails

How peculiarly blessed are some gardeners. There is one with a large garden in South England who had not seen a single slug or snail since the three-quarter acre plot came into......

A Christmas Kingfisher

Whether we shall be allowed to buy Christmas cards or whether we ought to buy them, I do not but it may not be unpatriotic to confess to a certain gladess that the Norfolk......

The Cinema

" Ships With Wings," March of Time. At the Gaumont.— " Special Dispatch." Generally released. THERE was a devil-may-care young naval officer whose motto was " Love 'em and leave......

Country Life

• MoOn and Muck • A land-girl's letter, after giving some account of the long and laborious hours spent in saving the harvest, records that the harvesters came in at night on......