21 APRIL 1950, Page 14

In the Garden Here is a gardener's experience of the

value of the Coco bean, that Miss Talbot and others have been urging us all to grow. " During the war I received from an American source a packet of climbing French ' Indigo' beans, which are synonymous with Coco. We have found that they must be gathered very young, but if they get past that stage they can be dried and used as haricot beans. They have more flavour than the white." Fortunately with most beans (unlike, say, Shirley poppies) home-grown seed does not deteriorate in quality. A single purchase, or