... Dear home in England! safe and fast. If but in thee my lot be cast, The past shall seem a nothing past To thee, dear heme, if wen at last. Dear home in England, won at last. A. H. CLOUGH (l8l6-l86l) Picture by Eric Guy A ...

... LIVERPOOL'S GREAT 3-DA USE SHOW AND GARDEN FETE CROXTETH HALL, with its extensive and beautiful grounds, attracted thousands of Liverpool's citizens over August Bank Holiday week-end, when the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress (the Earl and Countess of Sefton) held an ambitious and well-organised horse show and garden fete in aid of charity. A wonderful selection of side-shows forming a suitable ...

... BREEDERS from many of the western and south-western parts of the country assembled at Calstone Farm, Calne, Wiltshire, to inspect Messrs. Maundrell Brothers' herd, which, in the opinion of the chairman of the South-West Counties Shorthorn Breeders' Association,. Major G. F. Aldridge, is formed of the shorthorn par excellence. Summing-up the herd characteristics, he said the cows possess great ...

... BY OUR HORTICULTURAL CORRESPONDENT FRUIT may be grown in the smallest garden, not only soft fruit-- rasp berries, currants, gooseberries, straw berries, etc.-- but the larger tree fruits, such as apples and pears. It is obvious that in a very small plot of ground the larger fruits cannot be grown satisfactorily on standard or bush trees. Some of them would grow rapidly and very soon either ...

... LORD ROSEBERY has decided to retire his Derby and Gold Cup winner, Ocean Swell, to the stud. Ocean Swell is to have one more race this season, either in the Jockey Club Cup or the Jockey Club Stakes, after which he will join his distinguished sire, Blue Peter, at Mentmore. Ocean Swell's reputation, as the winner of the Derby and the Ascot Gold Cup, is more than secure but it will, indeed, be ...

... MEMBERS of the Pewsey Vale, Marlborough and Oxenwood Young Farmers' Club had a great opportunity when Sir William Rootes invited them to Stype Grange, near Hungerford. Four prominent breeders from Scotland were among the many distinguished guests and Mr. Will Hogg in a talk on the Aberdeen-Angus breed stressed the importance of breeding beef cattle. Mr. Jack Sinclair, manager of the famous ...

... Dwarf Trees A neglected but fascinating horticultural hobby By COLLINGWOOD INGRAM IT is a common belief that the practice of dwarfing trees by artificial means is a branch of horticulture peculiar to the Japanese people. Actually it was practised by the Chinese at least a thousand years before it was known in Nippon and in all probability it did not reach that country until the seventh century ...

... j is the wife of Major James Willson, D.S.O., Grenadier Guards. Her husband is the eldest son of Sir Walter Willson, of Kenward, Tonbridge, Kent, and they have one son who was born in 1943. The Hon. Mrs. Willson is a daughter of Viscount Scarsdale, of Kedleston Ilall, Derby, and was the Hon. Ann Curzon before her marriage. She is the eldest of four sisters Bertram Parle ...

... Sir Arnold Bax, who gave the first recital of his works in 1908, is a Gold Medallist of the Royal Philharmonic Society and of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, while his works have appeared frequently in programmes of the London Philharmonic Society and other principal London concerts. His deep interest in, and knowledge of Celtic life and history find expression in his well-loved choral ...

... Bubble Squeak Stories from Everywhere Two men in a lighthouse saw a small boat being rowed towards it. When it was about half a mile away it began to sink, so one of the men went out to the rescue. When the rescued man was in the lighthouse he told the men it was a good job they had saved him because he had come to see them about their income tax. Here, 1 say, we're out ol petrol, said he. ...

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... HOW LONDON CELEBRATED THE NEWS OF THE JAPANESE SURRENDER OFFER TWO PICTURES TAKEN ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, JUST AFTER THE (PREMATURE) ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST WAS OVER. The upper picture was taken in front of Buckingham Palace in the early afternoon the lower picture was taken in Piccadilly Circus at 9 o'clock the same evening It was at midday on Friday, August 10, that the first ...