In the Garden Gardening commentators, under the kind patronage of
the B.B representative, seem to have decided unanimously that the swede is good a garden as a field vegetable. I have learnt this week two n virtues in the swede (which I have long thought to be the best of turnip tribe). A bushel or two left overlong in a sack produced sh bleached shoots, which proved a very delightful addition to a sail They had a touch of bitterness (an aliquid amari) that suggested sorr (an edible weed not appreciated widely enough). When such bleat shoots reach the length of 6 or 7 inches, as they. may, they make delicious vegetable comparable with -sea-kale. I can endorse the, value, but take the sea-kale on trust from wholly trustworthy wiines Swedes (given uncooked) are strongly recommended for poultry, personally I find that hens will not eat them unless they are given in highly triturated form. To quote, another personal experience, my hens consume daily with increasing gusto an astonishing amount chickweed, that irrepressible plant which considers every month in year to be spring. It may be mentioned incidentally that the stirs prunus, known as Subhirtella autumnalis, has this April mistaken SP for autumn. It has joined Viburnum fragrans, which is flowering very nearly as freely as in last December. So also is Iris stylosa.
W. BEACH THOWLS'
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