Lucy Vickery

Spectator competition winners: ‘O scintillate, bright orb celestial! Gleam’ (‘Twinkle, twinkle, Little Star’)

‘Myristica fragrans? ay, sirrah, but dwarfish;/ With an aureate drupe and an argentine seed…’ [Photo 12 / Alamy Stock Photo] 
issue 27 November 2021
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