... By Our Horticultural Correspondent A NUMBER of the summer vegetables are now approaching maturity; their cultivation has demanded months of patient toil and watchfulness, and growers will now wish to reap their full reward by adding those finishing touches which extend the yield to its utmost and ensure that the storage crops are harvested in prime condition. Few crops respond more readily to ...

... BLUE PETER, the last Epsom Derby winner, was visited at Mentmore in early July by permission of his owner and breeder. Lord Roseberv. The writer was accompanied by the world-famous photographer of thorough- oreas, Mr. Roucn, and was shown over the stud by that other fine judge of a horse, Mr. Charles (Charlie) Edmunds. The stud-groom, Alfred Heritage, had good reason to be proud of the. line ...

... By Our Flying Correspondent A CORRESPONDENT wrote to me last week pointing out the large areas of the British Isles now devoted to air bases. He deplored the reduction in the area under cultivation, mentioned that by their nature the landing grounds for aircraft tend to take over some of the best drained and finest agricultural land, and then sug- gested that we ought to go in much more for ...

... IHAD a very interesting visit to the Royal Lytham and St. Annes Golf Club some few days ago to play in a foursome match with P/O Richard Burton and two good one- armed golfers, George Wilde and George Jackson. George Wilde was the founder of the One Armed Golfing Society some years ago, and thoroughly enjoys his golf, and despite his small stature he is no mean player, a sound ru at Pinner. My ...

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... cm. Breeders of Stayers Need More Encouragement THE Bank Holiday scrambles over, we may now clean and oil our bicycles and look to out boots. Almost one might suggest that prospective visitors to the autumn racing places will have to get into training. To what extent the later meetings will be affected by the motoring ban is a matter of conjecture. It seems likely that the Newmarket and ...

... In ten years time she'll be on the threshold of a new life, eager to strike out into a new world and full of enthusiasm for her new responsibility that of helping to guide the destinies of all we have loved and fought for. Give her every chance to succeed For now is the time to save for the future of your children by cutting all spending to the bone and starting the savings habit the habit of ...

... ABOUT ten years ago, soon after I had started a series of weekly articles for Golf Illustrated, I worked round to a Question and Answer series which I ran for a long time. Most of the people sending me in questions used to send a photograph of themselves inviting my com ments; some photos showed the finish of the swing, but by far the greatest majority showed the half-way down stage, usually ...

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... A Vision of the Promised New-Golden Age l to P U nil mi ted By C. Patrick I hompson THE sun sparkled on the granite spire of Hitler's tomb on the internationalised patch of ground below the Obersalzburg. John Brown and John Doe, who had come over from the ski camp above Innsbruck, read the plaque which enumeratéd the Satanic crimes of the daemonic folk monarch who had inspired and led the ...

... An Englishman's Home Miistaric Castles in Eitfjlttnd and Hales By M. L uvett Turner WE proudly boast that an Englishman's home is his castle --a truism that, fortunately, is far from the truth. The dictionary, that mecca of mental browsers, defines a home as the place where one is at rest-- a definition decidedly at variance with the spirit of a castle. Though the ruins of one may add Deauty ...