... fiy Our Horticultural Correspondent FRUIT trees deserve all the attention that can be given them in autumn. After producing the heavy crops, which appear to be general throughout the country, many trees are more or less exhausted and they will now need a helping hand to give them a chance of repeating in future years this season's satisfactory performance. Much advice is given about gathering ...

... A CHEERFUL notice reaches us from an unofficial, but unimpeachable, source, seven days after Italy's capitulation. The Treasury, it states, will only with the greatest reluctance release more money to help either growers or distributors of food. The Ministry of Labour has decided that war time agriculture must be content with its present labour force, and cannot be expanded. Machinery and ...

... I 'HE Sussex Herd Book Society's Autumn Show and Sale at Haywards Heath on August 27 is an important item in the local calendar, and is becoming increasingly important in wartime. The Sussex, one of the oldest, largest and heaviest of British breeds, has been developed as a beef animal from its original functions. In the old days the ox was worked in the fields until reaching its prime, when ...

... IN spite of the acute shortage of all grades of labour, hop-growers have been able to start the season with some of the old hands who never miss September in the gardens, and the aid of school children and voluntary helpers who have come down to assist with the work. Hop-picking is always regarded as a sociable out-of-door occupation combined with the pleasures of a lengthy and enjoyable ...

... THE honey-bee is an important unit in the production of the fruit and seed crops of the world, and in this country the pollination of our apples, plums and soft fruit is effected by honey-bees, bumble-bees and solitary wild bees of one sort or another, In many districts, the honey-bees do a greater part of this work than all of the other bees put together, and if bee-keeping were to suffer any ...

... Mountain Farming Cultivation and Re-seeding in Montgomeryshire MONTGOMERYSHIRE War Agricultural Committee, in the Spring of 1940, adopted a policy of cultivating upland areas, chiefly for potato grow ing. Much of the land was sub sequently re-seeded and now desolate mountains are being grazed by more livestock than ever before. On either side of the old Roman Road, which crosses the hill from ...

... SIR JOHN BUCHANAN JARDINE, Bart., of Castle Milk, and Colonel Walter Elliot, M.P., were among well-known buyers at the Lockerbie annual sale, when some brisk business took place. Sir John paid £400 a record for the centre for a fine cheviot ram from the Nether Cassock flock, and Colonel Elliot gave £130 for another. Sir John also paid £48 for a Border Leicester ram from the Tundergarth Mains ...

... The wife of Major the lion. John Hare, K.A., was the Hon. Nancy Pearson before her marriage in 1934, and is the second of Viscount Co\ydray*s five sisters. Her husband, who is the Earl of ListowePs second brother, is serving with the First Army. Major and Mrs. Hare have a family of three, Mary Anne, born in 1936, a son, Michael, who is five, and the youngest, Joanna, who was born last year, ...

... 44 O. -pw pi Some of Those Who Went to the Odeon, Leicester Square^ OLage UOOr canteen for the Premiere of This All-Star American Film Captain Sir Weldon and Lady Dalrymple-Champneys Mr. John Mills and His Actress Playwright Wife Dr. Edith Summerskill with Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Carr Viscount Bennett of Mickleham and Viscountess Greenwood Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, and Lady Woolton Captain ...

... 0 0^ /)*y A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Back in London WITH the return of the King and Queen to London, a constant stream of im portant callers have been seen going in and coming out of Buckingham Palace, among them, of course, Mr. Winston Churchill, who gave his own graphic account of his seven weeks' stay in Canada and America, and General Carton de Wiart, V.C., who told His ...

... As Lord President of the Council since 1940 and a member of the War Cabinet, Sir John Anderson is charged with important functions in connection with the Home Front, and is also the Minister responsible, amongst many other things, for the Government scientific organisations. In August he paid a flying visit to Washington to discuss with the American authorities scientific matters concerning ...

... Mar got Fonteyn Off-Stage Studies of the Sadler s Wells Ballerina 'g&Z-* Once upon a time champagne teas drunk from ballerinas ballet shoes by infatuated (and rich) balletomanes. Later, these devotees' successors begged a shoe and a signature for their collections. Nowadays, no dancer parts with a shoe till it is fit for nothing but salvage. In her jlressing-room Miss Fonteyn re-grades her ...