27 NOVEMBER 1953, page 13

Lime And Manure The Vegetable Plot Where Winter And Spring

greens are growing can be enlivened by a light forking or hoeing and a dressing of lime, for growth is slow and spasmodic in the colder months and heavy soil can quickly turn......

The Abominable Snowman

SIR,—I would suggest that Strix is incorrect when he states that an Abominable Snowman has not .yet been seen by a white man. I would refer him to a broadcast by W. H. `Liman......

Priests, Politics, And The Pope

SIR,— Although one must sympathise with the reasons that urged Mr. Charles Edwards to counter so strongly some of Mr. Gedge's re- marks in an article two weeks ago, he has, I......

Bird Conversation

A flock of starlings passed early in the after- noon. There must have been several hundred birds in the flock and they passed rapidly, swinging up to cross the telegraph wires......

Country Life

THERE was a mist when I went out. The trees along the hollow were enveloped in it but their tops stood clear. Now and again a car came along the road that winds up through the......

Green Logs The Bite Of A Log Saw On Green

wood soon tells one whether the sap has gone back or not. I took down three stunted and twisted trees that were in the way. One was a hawthorn with a deformed trunk, another an......

- Art The Dissolution, Of Which I Wrote Last Week,

of that durable image which the great cubist revolutionaries struggled to construct, has nowhere been more clearly evident than in the exhibition of paintings from France which......