In the Garden
In his standard, but occasillnally pugnacious, book on gardens, William Robinson seldom lost an opportunity of urging horticulturists to grow their trees and bushes from seed. He included in the list roses and more surprisingly, that favourite hedge plant, the Lawsonian cypress though he was thinking of it rather as a tree than a shrub. That noted gardener and traveller in plants, Mr. Clarence Elliott (lately turned out of his historic Six Hills Nursery by the activities of the town-planners of Stevenage), urges us all (from his pulpit in the Countryman) to enjo) the fun of growing apples from seed. We may get a prize ; we must get amusement. I may, perhaps, add to his urgency the advice to keep the pips moist. Most seeds ought to be dry ; but apple seeds are as exception ; hence the large amount of pulp, supplied by nature, not fa
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