Many Harvests
We have enjoyed a succession of excellent harvests : hay (is it still called haysel anywhere?), plums, vegetables of all sorts, especially potatoes, and now sugar beet. It will......
Country Life
Autumn Standards What is the loveliest specimen of autumnal coloration? On the banks of the Danube everyone would say the sumach ; in Newfoundland the maple, though the......
A Tuberous Triumph
It is a frequent custom in the yearly programme of the Women's Institutes, those cheerful and helpful assemblages of village women, to engage in a potato competition. Four......
The Cinema - .. Foreign Correspondent." At The Gaumont.—"...
Meets Debutante." At the Empire.—" Front Line." ..c t all cinemas. IN Rebecca Alfred Hitchcock showed that Hollywood had sup- plied for him two essentials which had been......
A Christmas Bird The Bird Of The Year, As Selected
by the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust, is to be the stonechat, than which no other small bird is more salient. In parts of Wales he is generally known as the " fuzz-chat " from his......
A Double Oddity
A habit common to many, perhaps most, gardeners is to promote a second or even third flowering of certain classes of plant by cutting off the first blooms as soon as they cease......
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