Selective Weedkillers
A friend whom I suspect has missed his vocation—he would have made a wonderful Hyde Park heckler—asked me the other day, 'Do you believe in selective weedkillers?' It was a......
Country Life
BY IAN NIALL WALKING along the banks of a lake last week 1 came upon a great army of young frogs. They were, of course, the result of the assembling of an earlier army of frogs......
Leaf Miner
Leaf miner is a great scourge in some gardens, disfiguring plants including celery and chrysanthemums. The maggot burrows its way about the leaf making unsightly channels and......
The Technique Of Mountaineering. By Dobson, 12s. 6d.)
No Englishman has taught so many people to climb as Jerry Wright, who reigned for years as the senior guide of the Lake District, and has since become the founder and moving......
For The Ailing
While one reader writes to suggest that the saliva cure for warts may owe its origin to Harley Street rather than to old country medicine, a remarkable list of ancient cures......
Chess
BY PHILIDOR No. 9..1. BUNTING WHITE 10 play and mate in 2 moves: solution next week. Taken from 'The Problemist,' May 1955—a never- I. failing source of first-class problems.......
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