Country Life
DISCOVERIES in the department of biology that has been oddly called dietetic botany, have multiplied of late, and some of them, if small, are surprising. For example: though it......
Next To Godliness
Sta,—This correspondence about bathrooms interests me, as I remember hearing that my grandfather had one in this city round - about the years 1840-5850. When friends came to his......
Reduced Deer
In some particularly acute and interesting notes on changes in Scotland, both historic and new, Julian Huxley (in the Countryman) suggests, indeed proves, that the red deer have......
Picasso And Mr. Ayrton
SIR,—May I attempt to explain in a few words why I think that Mr. Michael Ayrton has misinterpreted the true meaning of Picasso's ex- hibited pictures at the Victoria and Albert......
The Archbishop's Voice Sir,—i Think " Janus " Is Unkind
and unfair to the Archbishop of Canter- bury, especially as his Grace can hardly enter a defence. I wonder if those who are full of perplexity and consumed with regret really......
In My Garden
Most of us order our seeds for both potager and the flower garden round about Christmas, and the date is quite late enough. The question usually arises: which of the rarer......
New Fruits In Recent Years There Has Been A Great
increase, not wholly assisted even by the war, in the making of new sorts of fruit, though some of the old have been allowed to vanish. For example, in the best of all the......
Sut,—the Clumsy Humour Of "janus " Has Long Been One
of the afflictions of readers of The Spectator. When he pontifically tells Mr. Sevin or Mr. Churchill how to do better what they are already doing very well, it may be endured.......
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