... latter looking lovely in black but still feeling the effects of the attack of pneumonia she had in July, Sir Rupert and Lady Hardy with their daughter, Rosemary, and her fiance, Mr. R. D. Black, the Hon. Tessa Fox-Strangways and her fiance, Viscount Galway ...

... East Lancashire which, topographically, differ very little from those of its native home and require the same qualities of hardiness and disease resistance. The breed society organises two autumn shows and sales, one at Buxton, in Derbyshire, and the other ...

... from France. At this meeting two competitions are fished concurrently one for those who prefer the pier, another for the more hardy enthusiasts who go out to sea in boats of all sizes and shapes. Needless to say, the seafarers catch most of the fish, but ...

... be combined with a tombola. Members of the committee who attended the meeting included Lord Foley, Mrs. Emlyn Williams, Mr. Hardy Amies, Mrs. Vernon Tate in grey velvet with a platinum mink stole, Mrs. Douglas Cleaver, Lady Marks wearing a lovely sable ...

... February 1951 steer shown and bred by Mr. A. 13. Duncan, of Thornhill, Dumfries. A firmly- fleshed beast, typical of this hardy Scottish breed, he scaled 12 cwt. 3 qrs., and had the special award for the best exhibitor-bred animal in the show. Scottish ...

... them long dead in near-poverty. Walk up, walk up Have a nice run through the Shakespeare Country, the Wordsworth Country, the Hardy Country and, no doubt, the Bronte Country. Stops for tea, beer, meals and what the Americans elegantly call comfort are all ...

... Perfectly grown roots of the so- called vegetable oyster, this makes a very pleasant change in root crops for the winter. Quite hardy, salsify is easy to grow, but freshly organic-manured ground must be avoided or the roots will fork and be very unpopular in ...

... Sheffield with her pretty daughter, who will be coming out next year, and Mr. Ian Cameron, who had come down from London with Sir Thomas Pilkington and the Hon. John Denison- Pender. I also met Lady McAlpine, looking very neat in a navy suit, and was able to ...

... Rybyrgh, where her elder sister Geraldine, now Mrs. Douglas Temple-Richards, was married four years ago. Her parents, Sir Thomas and Lady Cook, are holding the reception after the marriage at their charming home, Sennowe Park. Lastly, in Scotland, Miss ...

... features. He had just completed that morning a manuscript on Thomas Hardy. It was tempting to compare the two men, for at first sight Hardy is so superficially different. Walter de la Mare, like Hardy, belongs to, and is the greatest living representative of ...

... s point of view, at any rate was, fittingly enough, staged by the Society's own experts. It consisted of a collection of hardy plants which have been introduced to British gardens during the last 150 years by collectors, nurserymen, seedsmen and botanists ...

... the Earl of Portarlington, Lord Howard de Walden, Gapt. and Mrs. Charles Tremayne, the Earl and Countess of Durham, Lady Hardy, in black with a pale blue hat, Lord and Lady Manton, the latter looking lovely in blue, the Earl of Drogheda and his stepdaughter ...