In the Garden
The "peck of March dust" has become a bushel, and every cottage garden is already full of seed. I cannot but think it better to follow the cottager rather than the specialist in the dates of some seed-sowing. We want flowers when the bulk of the herbaceous _plants are over ; and we can get them in abundance if we sow annuals not too early in spring rather than in autumn. Lateness is often more desirable than earliness, though no commercial gardener can afford to accept the doctrine. As to vegetables, sweet corn grows in favour ; and its culture has been increased by the cloche. In older days it bad to be grown so late that it had not time to mature. Today, early protection makes it a fairly reliable crop, as may be said of out-of-door tomatoes, an
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