15 AUGUST 1941, page 11

In The Garden

A rather troubled correspondent asks how he can grow winter lettuces—thinking, perhaps, that now is the time to begin. " I've heard of lettuce standing through into the spring,......

Fifty Years Back

We are probably too apt to regard the deterioration of farming and the drift from the land as contemporary problems, or at ny rate as problems of the dislocated period between......

The Cinema

" Jeannie." At the Leicester Square Theatre.-- ,, Cottage to Let." At the Gaumont.—" One Night in Lisbon." At the Carlton. Jeannie is from Aimee Stuart's play of the same name—a......

And Fruit Apples Are Going To Be Scarce And Dear,

and as usual the towns- as, quite naturally, will probably wonder why. By this time presumably knows all about the late spring frosts and the saster to fruit blossom, but he......

Country Life

obacco Power Looking up some old reports of the Royal Commission on griculture I see that the depression of 1893 was even more severe than that of 1879-8% and that most of the......