... Although most of the garden space will be turned over willingly to vegetable growing, there will be many who will draw courage and hope from the cultivation of a few flowers, and this they can do without injury to the national effort. By our Horticultural Correspondent ELABORATE summer bedding schemes this year will have to go by the board, but those with facilities for raising annuals in the ...

... SOIL sterilisation is the gardener's greatest aid to success in the cultivation of plants grown in greenhouses and frames. In few instances is its efficacy more apparent than in melon and cucumber culture, as it is an almost infallible remedy against two diffi cult obstacles which many experienced gar deners have been unable to overcome. I refer to damping off, a fungus disease which causes ...

... ^HATCHING, alas, is a dying art, and many farmers, though willing to pay good money, have not been able to find the men to do the work a hard circumstance, in view of the heavy penalty which the Government imposes for neglect in not covering stacks, etc. Inevitably, machines have to do the work, and while in the pictures above we show men engaged in reed thatching, one of the most beautiful ...

... Co., Ltd., fifty of which have been bought by the Minister of Agricul ture for distribution among War Agricultural Executive Committees. -T he Spider's great virtue is that it can be worked by unskilled hands, and it enables farmers to make their mats during the winter, and store them until needed. TO MEET NATIONAL NEEDS: Reeds being stored note and protected with reed thatching will come in ...

... HOCKEY AT IMBER COURT These two pictures show the Metropolitan Police attacking the Polytechnic goal during a match at Imber Court. Like many clubs whose members are serving in the armed and civil defence forces the Poly finds it difficult to get an XI. together. Their membership of eighty-eight has dwindled to fourteen and they have only two of the old First XI. left. In this match with the ...

... A J4 It ait Proud of It I DO not count myself as a very long driver; I rather pride myself on being adequately long and straight from the tee. I have hit some long drives at various times and under certain conditions can produce an extra long one, but I always feel that unless they are straight these do not mean very much. I hit two really long drives at Sandwich in 1938, in the last round of ...

... Heavyweights' CoinoKaok Ity IS. ISeniiison TO-MORROW, Sergt. Larry Gains, one time heavyweight champion of the Empire, and Sergt. Jack London, of West Hartlepools, on leave from the Royal Air Force, will meet at the Stadium Club, Liverpool. We are promised an especially pleasant Saturday afternoon with Gains and London happy in con templation of a holiday after their hearts. What ever Lucy ...

... D OXING returned to London on Monday with a Services programme at D the Cambridge Theatre. There was a full house to see Kid Berg, now in the R.A.F., make his first appearance as a middleweight in a bout with Karry^Craster. Showing much of his old skill and strategy, Berg won on points. In a much less spirited fight than the Berg-Craster affair, Dave Crowley easily beat Johnny Cunningham of ...

... In tlie Sporting' News PAT SPENCF., the South African Darns Cup player, was married at Sheffield to Joyce Valerie Robson, of the Vic-Wells Pallet. Pest man (behind the bridal pair) was Flight-Lieut. P. Murphy. Spence, now in the medical branch of the li.A.F., is outstanding as a doubles player. SGT.-INST. TOM LAWTON, the Everton and England centre-forward and Rosaleen May Kavanagh were married ...

... Shooting on a Modest Scale By A. Croxton Smith A FRIEND has written to me telling of the beauties of a part of Inverness-shire, and of a moor near by that carries a large head of grouse as well as some deer, that is almost going begging. What a picture to excite one's envy, and now it makes one think longingly of chose good old days that seem so far away, when men shot birds instead of their ...

... By Sir Pelham Warner THE gods who preside over the weather decreed in their wisdom that June 17, 1941, should be the perfect summer day, and the long line of school buildings looked down on a close wrapped in sunshine and warmth, with here and there a reminder that we are living in grim and anxious times. hollowing tradition Colonel R. S. Rait Kerr captained the Marylebone team, and losing the ...

... Today Time is Money Motor Transport Must Play a Bigger Part in Agriculture MOTOR cars have hitherto been looked upon primarily as pleasure vehicles, and their value to the country has usually been computed solely on the basis of the return they can yield in payments for exports. There was, before the war, a tense struggle between the leading industrial countries of the world for the export ...