... THE setting-out of small plants has always been a laborious, back-aching job, as those who do their own gardening well know. When it comes to the market gardener or farmer with acres and acres to plant, the job, unless he can call upon big teams, seems endless. It is true that a good man, with a boy to bring the plants, will put in 5000 a day, but this is one of those deadly tasks which the ...

... Co-Optimists Born Again H Cheery Memories of the Twenties IT is good news that The Co-Optimists-- the very name brings back cheery memories of the gay 'twenties-- are to be born again, and born as twins. For there are to be two com panies-- one run by Archie de Bear, who is one of the original founders (this will work in conjunction with E.N.S.A.), and also a second, which, if all goes ...

... Big Game in A w 'ican War Zone North Kenya, Where Water is Scarce From Lieut. -Col. C. H. Slodcley THE Northern Frontier district of Kenya, where our troops have been engaged with the Italians, is a barren country of thorns, stones and intense heat, where it may be forty miles from waterhole to waterhole. Yet it holds much game which either does without water for long periods, or dispenses ...

... IN my tournament experience only one course has ever been so difficult that all the leading players complained it was too difficult, though they had to admit it was fair. That course was Carnoustie. It was difficult because it was necessary to be a very long and very straight driver and to play nominated second shots all the way round. But the greens were fair and the holes fairly placed. This ...

... By Our Flying Correspondent FOR the past two weeks the subject which has been uppermost in the minds of most people in this country concerns the defeat of the night bomber. The raids on London, Coventry and other parts of the Mid lands have driven home the urgency of the need to find the answer to this form of attack. But so far I have not seen the problem really clearly put. For it is not ...

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... Completely illustrates and describes THE ROYAL MVY The Navy is to-day, as it always has been in our history, Aircraft-Carrier and Cruiser in the British Navy, the first line of defence of these islands and of that Great Empire r j. i, i a 7 as well as illustrations of every type ot Destroyer, which was built up by the toil and the enterprise of our fathers. J J r J Mr. Neville Chamberlain, on ...

... By Ashley Courtenay An English country house, com fortably furnished, a varied library, good cooking and plenty of scope to satisfy normal pursuits. What more need one ask of an hotel in peace or war? The brochure of the Brockham End Hotel, four miles from Bath, states with all the pride of possession that It would be difficult to find anywhere in England-- or elsewhere-- a small hotel ...

... ^4 DETACHMENT OF THE GRENADIER GUARDS visited. Eton on one of the Colleges recent field days in Windsor Great Park and gave the cadets a demonstration of company tactics. In this picture a Corps company has taken up a position for advance. Horsemen are. only used to direct exercises. TRENCH MORTAR bomb carrier being shown to cadets by a Guardsman. DEMONSTRATION of the right and wrong way of ...

... By Our Horticulturzl Correspondent IN the greenhouses at Medmenham Abbey, the historic Thames-side home of Mr. A. G. Bendir, I have seen a very fine display of chrysanthemums grown under the super vision of Mr. J. Roberts, the head gardener, who has thoroughly mastered the cultivation of a flower which needs more than ordinary ability to bring to such perfection as his blooms have reached. ...

... The Birth of a Butterfly Remarkable Pictures of the Rare Swallowtail^ Vx The female swallowtail selects a leaf of the sweet fennel plant. Fluttering into an opening between the sharp spines of the leaf she bends the tip of her abdomen into contact with the leaf, and cements a single egg into place. Still hanging entirely by the loop, the chrysalis has opened the divided claw at the tip of the ...