7 MAY 1948, page 14

Bees And The Apple Blossom The Apple Blossom Is Much

too profuse to give the bees a chance of fertilising more than, say, 5 per cent.; and even with the co-operation of flies and night-flying moths (whose ministrations have......

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Homing Swallows

The following experience is reported: " In the back porch there are two nests which have been there for years. They are occupied by only one pair of swallows each year. They use......

Regretted Tilths We Must All Welcome The Ploughing Up Of

land with the aim of increasing the supply of home-grown food, but the process may represent a capital levy. Valuable stores of Fertility are used up. Particular objection to......

Music

Gm:kr-CARLO MENorn, the author of two short operas now running at the Aldwych Theatre, is an American Italian, and so is the musical idiom which he uses. The Telephone is no......

Men Of Science Put Apples Into Two Classes: Diploids And

triploids ; and though the division depends on chromosomes (which must remain Greek to most of us), it is necessary to know which sorts are triploids. These, as a rule, will not......

Country Life

IT is averred by the more statistical naturalists that the commonest birds in England—not excepting even sparrow and stare—are the chaffinch and blackbird. Is their eminence due......