13 MAY 1949, Page 20

In the Garden

A happy use for lawn-mowings is made by one clerical gardener and doubtless by others. He fills a frame with a deep bed of such grass, which, as always, heats very rapidly ; and on this he lays his boxes of seeds which have all the advantage and more of a heated green-house. How many are the uses of such grass. It will fatten a pig, please poultry, mulch fruit trees of any sort and serve as a green manure if laid direct on the soiL As a warning it may be added that if left to heat in casual heaps it is wont to become the favourite breeding ground of flies. They benefit even more than the seed boxes from such a hot-bed.

W. BEACII THOMAS.