... Spraying follows pruning. Last week our Horticultural Correspondent described the best way to go about pruning. This week he stresses the importance of spraying and explains how it is done. THE two most important winter jobs con nected with fruit-growing are pruning and spraying, and I strongly recommend that pruning be completed as soon as possible in order to give a margin of time in which ...

... (inset), the head of the School, scored his 2g points for Wellington by crossing and kicking a penalty goal to bring his total of successful place-kicks to eight. STOWE ARRIVE with iheir captain, A. D. Thomson, holding the ball. This season injuries have made them much less formidable than usual. W. A. F. STKES GOES OVER Wellington's sixteen-year-old stand-off half scores between the posts. He ...

... I HAVE seen quite a large number of really memorable golf shots in my time, and had quite a number played against me, but one that stands out very clearly was that Archie Compston played in the Daily Mail £2,000 professional competition in 1939. I do not remember this shot because it was skilfully played, but because I consider it was lucky, daring in conception if you like, but frightfully ...

... Records of French-bred Winners-- Is an Enquiry Necessary? Plea for Two-day N.H. Fixtures. LORD ROSEBERY, in his Presidential address to members of the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association, rightly stressed the fact that the season's Derby winner, Pont l'Eveque, was British bred. Pont l'Eveque, in fact, was foaled in the Banstead Manor paddocks, Newmarket. Stressed also in the President's speech ...

... JOHN BARRYMORE is as good, if not better, an actor off stage than on, and certainly no screen player has given the sensation-loving public more to talk about than the youngest of the Barrymore clan. Other actors, on both stage and screen, have burlesqued him in this new film (coming to the Regal) he burlesques himself and has all manner of fun. John Barrymore as Evans Garrick, the Great ...

... Good News for 1941 Season But No Coronation Stakes Entries Fees Problem An Aintree Grand National The Late Alfred Sadler ALL-ROUND satisfaction is expressed in regard to the Jockey Club's publication of their foundation plans for racing in the coming season. The writer, who has just received a letter from a friend in Cairo imploring him to give us every scrap of racing news that there is, ...

... FRESH powers have been given to drainage authorities to enable them to get on with their big job without pettifogging delays. Machinery is being provided by the Government to do the work quickly and efficiently, and every effort is being made to secure additional labour and to make effective use of it. Grants are offered for every kind of work, from hill pasture to river estuary. The small ...

... 8/ Our Flying Correspondent THE other day I sought to weigh up the advantages gained by Britain and Germany in the bombing campaign and to strike a balance. Now is a good moment to look at the larger war situation; to take the past twelve months of aerial operations of all kinds and to see how we stand. Much is unknown and will remain unknown until long after the war is over. For instance we ...

... By our Horticultural Correspondent Three Ways of Growing Winter Lettuce A COMPLETE gardening season has elapsed since we were first urged to increase food production in our gardens. On the whole, I believe the response to the Govern ment's appeal has been good, but it is evident that enough vegetables are not yet being grown to satisfy the country's needs. The present shortage of onions gives ...

... MART HARDWICK-- PRO. Mary Hardwick, the Wightman Cup player who has been playing in matches up and down the United States (with vary ing success) ever since war began has at last turned professional. Here she is signing up with Jack Harris who is putting her on tour with Alice Marble Budge and Tilden. She announces that a large part of her earnings will go to war charities. In the rec ent ...

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