... ^tL avicf Msotvri Ute- THE story recently published in a daily newspaper to the effect that a dandelion now being grown in Kew Gardens may help to solve the problem of Britain's rubber shortage, suggests that British scientists have only recently approached the problem. The fact is that research at Kew has reached a rather more advanced stage. Experimental plots containing varieties of the ...

... By Our Flying Correspondent ONE of the saddest things about the extensive work now being done on creating new aerodromes is that it almost invariably entails the destruction of large numbers of trees. Trees are, to some extent and regarded from the narrowest point of view, the enemy of the aviator. Not only must they be cleared from the landing area itself, but they must be cleared from the ...

... Fruit-T rees The Sort to Buy and How to Plant Them By Our Horticultural Correspondent IF I were asked to name a particular branch of horticulture in which the novice is liable to make the biggest mistakes, 1 should suggest that it is in the choice and planting of new fruit-trees. It may be that vegetable- growing presents equally puzzling problems, but here there is ample opportunity for ...

... SIXTEEN distinguished architects have just produced pi a new City of London. The new London of their drc undoubtedly very beautiful. To what extent it could be 1 into the pattern of post-war conditions is debatable.- The of to-day is unfettered by considerations of costs or of c interests the builder of to-morrow may not enjoy such f r 3 Max Holier has sketched at our request a design for a ...

... JUST over a year before the war, an old golfing friend of mine passed away; a keen golfer, around scratch, he was for over thirty years a real student of the game, for in his library were many golf books of all periods. Knowing of our friendship, his family sent me along quite a collection of these books, which I treasure. He was one of those people who not only read books but who study them ...

... In the summer we published an article on how a great commercial carnation grower had turned his houses and land over to tomatoes with success. Here is the story of another carnation specialist who took over a derelict holding for tomatoes with equal success. AN old tumbledown house, un occupied for years, no doors or windows, on the road side one mile out of Whitchurch, Salop, on the main ...

... By A. Croxton Smith OF all the plaguey little creatures that vex in this temperate climate of ours, the rat is the most obnoxious. It is a disgusting parasite, without a friend in the world, and the cost of harbouring it is incalculable, yet we go on affording it hospitality without making any great national effort to exterminate it. It is obvious that nothing but united determination can rid ...

... J. R. Freeman Son, Ltd., n, J. R. Freeman G? Son, Ltd., n Made by King SIX CIGARS Yfwh, jot the fQnif on the hand King SIX is a British-made cigar, by Freeman's the house with over ioo years' experience in fine cigar making. lakers of fine cigars since 1839. ...

... BRITAIN'S NEW TWIN-ENGINED AIRCRAFT The Mosquito Pictured for the First Time Uor some time the Mosquito has been engaged on operational work with the R.A.F., but details of this new twin-engined reconnaissance bomber have only just been rrtade public. The new aircraft is the first operational type to be developed by the de Havilland Design Office Staff since the war of 1914-18. It has two ...

... TEST-FLYING A BRITISH BOMBER Before Incorporating New Modifications in the Already Successful Lancaster Bomber Just as important as the introduction ol new types of aircraft is the improvemenl of existing ones. Much work is necessarj when a modification is introduced it musl be tested and re-tested until every new factor about it is known. Yet, often, 44 modifications really mean that an old ...

... The STRUGGLE for the SOLOMON ISLANDS The Fighting Around Lunga Aerodrome on Guadalcanar, Where U.S. Marines and Bluejackets Have Now Been Reinforced by the Army A DETERMINED effort is now being made by the Japanese Forces-- land, sea and air-- to recover the island of Guadalcanar, in the Solomon Islands, which they lost on August 8. The island is an essential part of the Japanese scheme to ...

... I The Advance Across the Owen Stanley Range The Pursuit of the Japs Across the Gap in New Guinea During the Allied Offensive from Port Moresby Towards Buna ON these pages we are enabled to reproduce-- for the first time-- pictures and diagrams which indicate the nature of the little-known tangle of country which lies between Port Moresby, on the south of New Guinea, and Buna, on the north. ...