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THE GUARDIAN Saturday September 29 1962 DANGER OF SLUSH ON RUNWAYS New guidance for take-offs the main damage from slush would be due to direct impingement on the skin of the under surface of the fuselage, wings, and flaps, and on the propellers, and also from ingestion by the engine. "However, it has been shown that damage or hazard can nlso be causi-d indirectly, for example, by the blocking of cooling and other ducts, and from jamming or freezing of undercarriage mechanisms. The damage 'actor can be limiting in determining the maximum depth of slush. Controllability problems arc also likel to be worse than had been ed previously." The circular recommends that take-offs with depths of slush or water on the runway greater than half-an-inch should not be attempted unless there is a considerable background of experience of the operation of the aircraft in greater depths and this experience or other investigations have shown that the performance of the aircraft is predictable in the greater depths and that the operation is safe from the point of view of slush impingement and ingestion." Drivers "under the influence" ALTERNATIVE TEST SUGGESTED By our own Reporter Three members of the staff of the Department of Forensic Medicine at Glasgow University state in a report published today that present methods for testing drivers suspected of being under the influence of drink are unsatisfactory. They claim that a single test of the urine alcohol level should be substituted.

Experiments carried out on subjects who had rdl been given lOoz. of whisky showed that variations in effect were much greater than had been expected when normal aptitude tests, such as walking a line and arranging matches, were used. Some of the subjects merely smelled of whisky after while others rapidly became semi-comatose and remained so for three to four hours." Differing standards The report by Edgar Rentoul, Hamilton Smith, and Richard Beavers, published in the Journal of the Forensic Science Society states that different standards are applied by different doctors in tests of motorists at police stations and points out the vagaries in the application of Section 6 of the Road Traffic Act, 1960. They claim that the decision about what is "proper" control of a car must be based on a personal and not absolute standard. "Nothing makes law so ineffective as uncertainty in its application the report adds.

The history of the law attempting to control 'drunken drivers' certainly demonstrates its ineffectiveness." One possible solution, the authors state, would be for the courts to pay no attention to the alcohol factor and PATIENTS WITH PATIENCE Waiting at hospitals Doctors in general practice and hospital clinics should introduce an appointments system to cut down the interminable period of waiting experienced by patients, a meeting organised by the Operational Research Society in London urged last night. Tne society's queueing study group invited doctors in general practice and hospitals to consiuer the results of recent research into the waiting and the appointment systems. -Mr K. it. P.

Jackson, chairman of the study group, saul an appointments system relieved the strain on both uoctors and their patients. In many cases, patients had to wait about one and a half hours, often having to queue in groups of up to 'M and generally overflowing the waiting room and stretching down the passageway. It is not good when lots of patients arc waiting, coughing and sneezing, and leaning against the paintwork plus the doctor having to dash in and out," he saul A doctor could easily assess his consultation time with each patient, deducing how many appointments can he filled into each hour. Thus an appointments system could be spread over each day. Not punctuul Brigadier J.

D. Welch, of the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, said that generally the medical staff of hospitals made little attempt to be punctual, whereas as a body patients arc not late some are, but most are early." If the medical staff were always punctual for the start of their clinics an important step would lie taken towards making out-patient departments more humane and eflicient There need be no fears about the punctuality of the nurses they are alwajs on duty preparing the room, often some time before each clinic is due to begin." Dr John Fry, a general practitioner from Beckenham, said he had used an appointments system during the last six months. It is eminently practicable and is very much appreciated by the patients. I strongly recommend it for general practice." Mrs Lucy Carrington Wcrihcim, who owns more than one thousand paintings, has an art gallery in an old tithe barn at Ashford, Derbyshire. About seventy of the paintings, worth between 20,000 and 30,000, are being loaned to the new Sussex University Patient died after delay over bed A coroner said yesterday that the emergency bed service should be given more power to find beds for seriously ill patients needing urgent treatment.

Mr A. G. Davics, the Southwark coroner, was told how Cyril McDonald (2G), a diebetic, of Bagshot Street, Walworth, died after attempts lasting more than two hours had been made to find him a hospital bed. He was eventually admitted to St Giles Camberwell, where he died. The coroner said There is no Aircraft should not attempt to take oft when there is more than half an inch of slush or water on the runway, says a new Civil Aviation information circular.

It recommends also that generally take-offs should not be attempted if there is more than three inches of dry snow. The circular says that information now available shows that the adverse effects of slush, snow, and water can all be greater than had been supposed, particularly in respect to slush. 11 had therefore been decided to amend the guidance given previously, and in particular to revise the recommended maximum depths of slush or water for safe take-offs and the corrections to be applied to the normal take-off field lengths required. Secondary drag When a previous circular was drafted no test results were available for the secondary drag caused by spray patterns striking the structure of the aircraft. It was then supposed that this effect was insignificant except in the case of certain high-wing aircraft having low-slung fuselages.

"It has now been established, however, that the secondary drag is probably appreciable for most aircraft" The circular adds that the direct and secondary drag caused by the nose wheel in particular could be more than assumed. It had previously been thought that 3 injured in wages raid 2,000 STOLEN Three employees of the Southern Electricity Board were hit over the head with iron bars by bandits who snatched a bag containing 2,190 in wages at Uxbridge, Middlesex, yesterday. The money was being taken from a local bank to the Uxbridge district office. The injured men were Mr D. E.

Parker, aged 42, a clerk, of Cowley, who was detained in hospital for observation Mr A. C. Ridgeweli, aged 47, cashier, of Southwell: and Mr G. F. Butler, aged 57, driver, of Hilling-don.

Mr Ridgeweli and Mr Butler left hospital after treatment A gang of four men snatched a wages bag containing 1,300 in cash from a car returning from a bank to the factory of A. Mason and Christmas card manufacturers, St James's Road, Croydon. Forced car to stop The men were In a car which forced the firm's car to stop. One of the gang jumped out. opened the door of the firm's car, and snatched the bag from a woman cashier.

The driver of the firm's car. Mr J. Curtis, restarted his engine and chased the gang's car for a quarter of a mile. The thieves stopped, jumped out of their car, and ran away down a footpath at the side of a railway track. Mr Curtis chased them, but they escaped.

A wages box bolted to the car chassis inside the boot baffled a gang at Harlesden, London. The gang, using two cars, had trapped the wages car in the forecourt of the Elliott Engineering Victoria Road. Harlesden. Several bandits threatened the firm's employees with coshes, while other members of the gang forced open the boot of the wages car. As soon as they realised they could not take away the box believed to have contained several thousand pounds they ran away, abandoning their two cars.

A car driven bv a woman was waiting near by. and the bandits escaped. None of the firm's employees was injured, and the na.v roll was safely delivered. Air control "destroying aviation" Some of Britain's air traffic control officers were criticised by Air Vice-Marshal D. C.

T. Bennett at the annual conference of the Aerodrome Owners' Association at Blackpool yesterday. "Air traffic control officers of this country are the greatest offenders, the greatest destroyers of British aviation because of their attitude to private pilots," he said. They had seen the absolutely criminal scandal of private pilots being fined up to 150 for making a iimple mistake and doing Ihe equivalent of stepping off the kerb into the road. He urged the need for more co-operation in encouraging aviation.

Answering questions, Air Vice-Marshal Bennett said he did not include all control officers in his comments. In one instance he had in mind, an aircraft went two miles inside the London control zone with not the slightest danger. He argued that airports should be free. They served the whole community and therefore should be a Government burden. Roads, he pointed out, were free because they served everybody and brought business and VYosperity to the community.

WINNING THROW HIT OFFICIAL Struck by hammer Mr R. Hayland, aged 56, an official, was hit on the left arm by a hammer thrown by Howard Payne, a member of the England team, during the athletics meeting between England and Finland at the White City, London, last night and a bone in the upper arm was broken. He was carried to an ambulance and taken to Hammersmith Hospital, and X-rayed. He was said to be comfortable." Another official said Mr Hayland had received the full force of the hammer not just a glancing blow. Payne, who lived in Rhodesia before settling in England, said after the inquiry about Mr Hayland's condition I actually did the damage with my winning throw of 208ft lOin.

a personal best It was my second throw Dockers seek a voice in plans for decasualisation Thousands of dockers in London have prepared a plan for getting a "bigger say in schemes for increased decasualisation in British ports. Nearly 9,000 workers in the Royal Group of docks are asking Mr Frank Cousins, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, to approve a national ballot among members. Mr J. Dash, chairman of the Royal Docks Liaison Committee, said yesterday "We want this ballot so that we can decide on our counterproposals to the employers' plans. The men want some say In the matter.

We are prepared to reshape the industry, but we want a bigger say in the reshaping of it A ballot will enable members to say whether they accept all the employers' proposals for increased decasualisation." Recent attempts to achieve more decasualisation in Britain's ports and docks have been comparatively successful in the larger ports. RUNAWAY BOY RETURNS George Sye, aged 14, the schoolboy who ran away from his home in Northampton and hitchhiked and stowed away on boats and trains before being found in Naples, arrived at London Airport yesterday. He was taken to police headquarters at the airport. The oldest of five children, the boy ran away from home with only 5s. VISIT OUR DISPLAY GARDEN at DAVENBAM o-ar Norlbwlcn Open weekdaya eremons, inJ ckDU SOOSKY SON t-ARMYAKU MANURfa NO SMELLS Puller compoeted screened impure lot Hardens eurt Uwru bandies like jilted soli: air-bag for l.ooo tq ft itwn or 500 iq ft garden.

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Modern Garden Centra and Nurserie JfEti ctctj Ctj until dtuk; indoor flower show weekend. Ursc Cat Hark tniidc Naraer) to nsit request Catalofoe (M itunpa) vartetlet UluatratKa Vigox Blood and Bone Meal THE GARDENER'S SECRET Enriches the sol) and nourisriw all plum lift- lew: KOtS fnnlu.r thlJD 110, I or crritnary nanur lot 4i7- 2fl-, 2flb Ifi- VIGOX LAWN' FERTILISER with Its rich organic buf nns like mas'c. lewt 5Ib. 13-. all cirrifue r-ifd Compare VIGOX VALUE with the wuill tjujntitlft' sold tins or wcLeu VIGOX EMPIIF.SS STREET.

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Holly Lane S'jal Dear Wllms'ow Tel Wllnwlow 2773 Munich disaster The British Airline Pilots' Association last night welcomed the circular. The association said it strengthened its view continually expressed since the Munich accident in 1958 that slush on the runway was the probable cause of the disaster. New information in the circular gave added weight to the association's fight to have the inquiry reopened by the German authorities. ROYAL TOUR OF LAKE DISTRICT Princess's visit our Kendal Correspondent Thousands of people thronged the route for the first official visit of Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon to Westmorland and the Southern Lake District yesterday. The Princess came to open Abbot Hall, Kendal, a Georgian mansion which has recently been restored and converted into the Lake District Art Centre, and made several other calls during a five-hour tour.

After an overnight train journey from London, the royal party motored six miles along the shore of Windermere for a brief visit to Brathay Hall, a training centre for youths entering industry. Aluminium roofs Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon returned to Windermere, where they visited Long Dales, the home of Mr Peter F. Scott, chairman of the Lake District Art Gallery Trust. The main roofs of the house are clad in aluminium and slope inwards to large central gutters fitted with thermostat heating to ensure quick disposal of snow in winter. The royal couple then drove through the Lyth Vallev to lunch with the Lord-Lieutenant of Westmorland, Mr Henry Hornyold-Strickland, and his wife at their home at Sizergh Castle, a National Trust property with a fourteenth-century peal tower, three miles south of Kendal.

After lunch the royal party drove to Kendal, where thousands of people lined the liar-decked route to Abbot Hall art centre. Here the Princess and Lord Snowdon were welcomed by Mr Roger Fulford. chairman of the governors of the art centre, who said that the art gallery had been created from private benefactions and gifts from business houses and town and county councils. The Princess and Lord Snowdon viewed the exhibits before walking to the ancient parish church. Afterwards they motored to Blickpool to join a plane for the South.

Managers claim a freedom The Society of West End Theatre Managers yesterday commented on Press Council findings on a complaint by the Society of "repetition by 'The Observer' week after week and month after month in a feature called Quick Theatre Guide' of what Society members allege to be damaging statements regarding a number of West End theatre productions." The Society says "The Society tendered evidence that In at least one casc the report was founded upon a visit to a theatre more than two months before the date of the publication of adverse criticism, but that in the interim the newspaper had printed two glowing appraisals of the same production. "The Press Council doe by Inference say that Judgments on the merit of plays should be based on recent visits and to thai extent it docs certainly agree with one of the main objections by the Society. "The Royal Commisiion stated emphatically that advertisers do not, however, owe any particular publication a living, and it Is quite unreasonable to expect them to advertise in publications in which they do not want to advertise and that those who emphasise freedom of expression for newspapers and magazines should not deny freedom of choice to advertisers." The Press Council yesterday reported adjudications in complaints against the "South Wales Echo" and the Stratford (London E) Express." breeding ground in Britain of the native grey lag goose and Tentsmuir Point, a winter roost for wildfowl, also has interesting botanical characteristics. The Bcinn Eighe reserve the first to be established in Britain is an area of relict pinewood whose fauna includes wild cat, pine marten and crossbill. The extension at Inverpofly will bring Knockan Cliff into the reserve.

Investigations of the geological structure of this crag played a vital part in elucidating the structure of the Scottish Highlands and in the development of the science of tectonics. The fifth nature reserve to he extended is that of Blcan Woods in Kent where the area has been almost doubled by the addition of Grlmshill Wood. SI acres of oak woodland. BALDNESS BE MY FRIEND By our own Reporter Detectives finding a human hair at the scene of a crime may soon be able to tell not only to whom it belonged but on what date it fell from his head. This is reported by Mr S.

S. Kind, editor of the Journal of the Forensic Science Society, when commenting on recent findings at the University of Toronto about the micro-composition of hair. There is, he states, "weighty evidence for the idea that the composition of hair varies widely among individuals and that "results of as high a probative value as fingerprints may be obtained." concentrate only on bad driving whether caused by drink, drugs, bravado, bad temper, fatigue, disease, physical incompetence, or old age. Where the defect was irreparable, the person could be permanently stopped from driving. This scheme was, however, perhaps impracticable in that too many would not accept it.

The only fair alternative, they claim, would be for the courts to decide drunken driving cases on urine alcohol. The authors suggest that it should be illegal to drive a car when there are more than a hundred milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of urine. A 12-stone man going to a dinner party at 8 p.m. and drinking three large sherries, three glasses of wine, and a liqueur, would have 80 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of urine when driving home at midnight. On the other hand, the same man going to a public house at 7 45 p.m.

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pink, white, mxd. 15 I 2. SCABIOUS, delicate linht blue 122A CHEIRANTHUS. oranse wallflower 25 2-POLYANTHUS, slant mixed 18 26 MrDKANUBAS. blue, pink, white 3t 26 towards cost of carrt'axe and ptckint (The heerl of the Bnih Bulb Industry.) doubt that this boy has died because of delays." lie added that the job of the regional admissions officer should be extended and the emergency bed service should be able to direct urgently ill patients to hospitals in the area.

The coroner also said that Kings College Hospital discharged McDonald the afternoon before he died and had sent a letter to his general practitioner that did not arrive until tne next day. I consider that if a case of this gravity is discharged from hospital immediate contact should be made to the general practitioner by telephone. A letter is not good enough." Dr Neal llaimer, senior registrar at the hospital, said that McDonald was no worse when he was discharged than when he was previously discharged from the hospital. Dr Michael Geall, house physician, said that when the family doctor rang that evening asking for the patient to be admitted he found that the hospital was completely full. Miss Barbara Nash, a clerk with the emergency bed service, said she tried seven hospitals before contacting the regional admissions officer and a bed was found.

She sent an ambulance to McDonald at 11 50 p.m. A verdict of death from natural causes was recorded. UNIOIN MOVEMENT RESIGNATION organiser Mr Walter Hesketh, the former British international long-d i a athlete, who has been associated with Sir Oswald Mosley's Union Movement for the past few years, has resigned ss full-time North of England organiser of the movement, his wife, Mrs Marjorie Hesketh, said at their home in Manchester yesterday. "He resigned several weeks ago and this time his resignation has been accepted, although when he has resigned before it has not been accepted." She said her husband's resignation also involved his leavincr Sir Oswald Mosley's book distributing firm for wnicn ne nau neon working. Mr Hesketh, a former Manchester policeman, stood as Union Movement candidate at last year's Parliamentary byelection in the Moss Side division of Manchester.

cover for the winter. By May the sturdy young plants should be ready to be set out in their permanent sites. Three make an ideal group, but small gardens a single plant can be relied on for a considerable display. A variety or this species. S.

superba lubeca, is more dwarf (reaching only a height of two feet as against the two and a half to three feet of tho type), and earlier in bloom, but as long lasting in the autumn colour of its bracts. It is deeper, more of a violet blue In (lower. S. officinalis varicgata, tho variegated form of the ordinary kitchen-garden herb, flowers but sparsely. Its charm lies in the beauty of Its large, soft textured leaves.

Sage green, darker green and dove grey, sploshed with cream and rose, they remain on the plant the year round, associating delightfully with pinks or nepeta, or forming neat hummocks of pleasant colouring at the foot of old roses or the less formal shrubby floribundas, such as Magentas. Rosemary Rose, or Iceberg. In thinking of the sage family It would be ungrateful to forget Salvia horminum, the cottage-garden annual clary, with bracts as beautiful as any flower In shades of violet, deep blue, and bright rose-pink. This is a most effective plant to soften and bridge gaps of strident colour In the flower border, knitting all Into a most attractive whole. J.

M. B. Seed of S.S. turkestanlca and S. horminum may be bought from Messrs Thompson and Morgan ol Ipswich plants ol the varwnntctl snne from Ash-fields Herb Nursery.

ilinstock. Market Drnutan. Shropshire other sanes from Messrs Sunmnqdnle Nurseries, Vi'intllesham. Surrey. Russian challenge to US chess prodigy From our Chess Correspondent Varna (Bulgaria), September 28 The Russians have issued a challenge to the American teenage prodigy Bobby Fischer to play a match with the world's leading woman chess master, Nona Oaprindashvili.

In an Interview last year Fischer claimed he could give any woman player in the world odds of a knight and defeat her. Gaprindashvili is considered by the Russians to be almost the equal of the late Vera Menchik, the world's greatest woman player. She is at present winning easiiy in a match for the woman's world championship against the holder, Elizabeth Bykova. Told of the challenge at the world Team Championships here. Fischer said he would accept, for stakes of 53,000 a side and Russian officials arc considering the offer.

Opinion among the other masters is sharply divided on the outcome of the match if it takes place. Most of the non-Russians favour Fischer who today won the most brilliant game of the tournament agaonst the Argentine grandmaster, Najdorf. However, the Russians many of whom know Gaprindashvils, a 21-year-old sludent from Tiilis, Georgia consider that the American's well-known brash confidence is due for a setback. The Soviet champion, Boris Spassky, commented Bobby ought to be satisfied with otlss of pawn and move," while the former world champion Mikhail Tal, summed up the general feeling in the Russian camp Fischer is Fischer, but knight is knight." In the second round of final Group of the championship, England lead Mongolia 2-1, with Clarke having a slight advantage in his unfinished famc with the Mongolian top board, Purev-zhav. Littewood scemd disheartened by his defeats and was outplayed by Moniu in the middle game, but Barden attacked energetiacally against Chals-saruen and broke through to win.

Wade won in excellent positional style against Namshil. The final Group A scores are Russia Bulgaria 15 Yugoslavia Hungary 1 East Germany 2. United States 2 Argentina 2. West Germany Czechoslovakia 2, Holland 2 Austria 1. Rumania Group It, round one: Switzerland 2i, Sweden 11; Iceland Israel 3J Spain 2, Denmark 2 Cuba 2, Finland 2.

Round two Sweden 3, Iceland 1. BURNLEY'S PLAN COMMISSION FOR New unit of 11,100 acres Burnley's plan for submission to the Boundaries Commission visualises taking over Padiham and Brierfield and parts of the Burnley rural area. It provides for a new unit of 11,400 acres, nearly three times the present area a population of 105.000 and a rateable value of 1.2 millions Burnley Rural District Council would lose parts of 11 of its 20 parishes, and give up 7,000 people, 5.000 acres, and 130,000 rateable value. Alderman T. E.

Gallagher, chairman of the Burnley Parliamentary subcommittee, said yesterday that all the areas concerned had community interests with Burnley and similar economic and industrial characteristics. Padiham and Brierfield are expected to resist the proposals and the rural district council has promised it? parishes full opportunity to discuss the plan. SIR JOHN RECEIVES GIELGUD BEQUEST Garrick's shoes Sir John Gielgud, the actor-manager, has been left a pair of black shoes with gold buckles which belonged to David Garrick. The bequest was made by Miss Clare Atwood, of Kench Hill Nursing Home, Tentcrden, Kent, a painter who had exhibited at the Roya Academv and the Tate Gallery. She died last month, age 90, leaving 30,288.

SUBTLE SAGES by a Gardening Correspondent At a time when our gardens tend to be overweighted with the daisy-flowers of late summer and the glowing harvest-festival colours of the dahlias, the sage family offers some pleasant possibilities of subtle contrast in habit and colouring, far removed from the squat scarlet gaudiness of Salvia splcndens, so beloved by many of those In charge of tho bedding-out departments of our public parks. Salvia sclaria turkestantea Is a biennial which may be easily raised from seed. Sown In the unhcatcd greenhouse In March, or out of doors in May. the seedlings quickly grow into handsome rosettes of large, wavy dove grev leaves which stand the hardest winters in any sunny, well-drained spot The following August, graceful, three-foot candclabras of rosy bracts and paler (lowers will make an airy yet substantial picture. For best effect five or more plants should be grouped.

Thev will renew themselves from seed hut even so a second generation should be raised early In the year the first batch of plants come into flower, to make a show the following year. Once the two generations of biennials are established the group may safely he left to reproduce itself. After one has had S.S. turkestanlca in bract and flower, the garden In late summer without it would seem bare indeed. Brilliant in Its first flush of gentian blue spires.

Salvia superba (which used to be known as S. vlrgata nemerosal gives an autumn display of no less beauty when the flowers have faded, leaving behind glowing spikes of mulberry red bracts. This sage Is a sound perennial. It may easily be increased bv shoots of ripened wood pulled off w'lth a heel, dibbled in a pot of sandy compost and placed under SPECIAL BARGAIN OFFERS THAI SHOULD BE PLANTED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE Order Now end we'll despatch your ream'rrmenls by return under Honey Back GurnUe. 25 SELECTED DARWIN TULIPS 2'6 L-Iioire of rod.

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FOR TUNE, yellow with tinted red TWO NEW NATURE RESERVES Yorkshire Dales and Scotland By our own Keporter trumpet Alt ideal for indoor cut 15 KING ALFRED DAFFS 26 the solilen Giant (11.13cm) or 50 for 76 DOUBLE YELLOW DAFFS (ll-13cm) 12s 2(6 PINK TRUMPET DAFFS (Mlcm) 6 2. WHITE TRUMPET DAFFS (9-llcm) it 2. 25 Gold TRUMPET DAFFS 26 trleelrj (9-llem) bulbs. Ideal cut bloomi. CHEERFULNESS, (10-12cm) 12r2.

NARCISSI DAFFS bulbleti 31b.i 46 ALSTROEMERIA, oranze 26 25 DAFFS NARCISSI 26 moiioWuI tetectej (9-llcm) bulbs, mixed DOUBLE EARLY TULIPS (10.12cm) 6 24 SINGLE EARLY TULIPS (10-12cm) 6 1 26 50 GIANT WALLFLOWERS 2'. Two new nature reserves and extensions to five others, involving a total of 3,000 acres, were declared yesterday by the Nature Conservancy. The new reserves are Colt Park Wood, a 21-acre strip on the north-caat face of Ingleborough at ltibblehcad in the Yorkshire Dales park and 227 acres of coastal land at St Cyrus, in Angus and Kincardineshire. Both reserves are of unusual botanical interest. Four of the five extensions to existing nature reserves arc in Scotland Loch Druidibeg.

Inverness-shire; Tent-muir Point, Fife Bcinn Eigne. Ross and Cromarty and Inverpolly, Wester Ross. Loch Druidibeg is the most important red, sold or mixed. 12 Double Yelli 50 "TWO-TONE" TULIPS 116 Samed selected fl012cm) bulbs. Ten eaci ot MAG1ER, mauve and white.

ARGO, buttercup and orance. RHINELAND, red and yellow. ZIMMERMAN, pink and whit-. MARGARET ROSE. tcMow and red.

Or ten of one I 26 10 I5LACK TULIPS (ll-12cm) 3- PARROT TULIPS O-llcm) mixed 6 1 PEACOCK TULIPS, brilliant mixed colour, with flecked, decorative leaver 6 I 3 RED RIDING HOOD Tulipa. extremely decorative, varieeated leavea 6 36 MU1.TI-TULIPS. 4-6 red blooma 6 I 36 OXFORD TULIPS. 9in wide red Mm. 6 1 36 LAWN GRASS SEED II- or alb.i 106 Ptceie enclose C.W.O.

adding 116 COWBIT ROAD NURSERIES (DEPT. 9). SPALDING, LINCS..