13 JULY 1934, Page 16

An Aesthetic Shack Nor is gardening or shack-building the only

art taught by the organizers of this most beneficent scheme. The one superiority of the French gardener over the English is not in production but in the treatment of the produce. In perhaps 90 per cent. of poor households and many rich households vegetables are wastefully and, so to say, un- dietieally cooked. It is therefore very good news that the " penny guide to the Cooking of Vegetables " published by the Central Allotment Committee at Friends House, Euston Road, London, N.W. 1, sells like hot cakes. It contains also an admirable little page or two on the simplest way of preserving surplus produce. The millennium will have arrived when such a volume is made the book of the week in our great dailies.