21 SEPTEMBER 1945, Page 18

In My Garden The harvest festival approaches, and the village

in general sends fruit and vegetables first to decorate the Church, and then to supply the cottage hospital. One of my contributions will be a pumpkin of Falstaffian proportions. The gourd is worth growing more as a spectacle, but it is excellent food if cooked as the Americans cook squash pie. The squash itself is little superior to the pumpkin, and the custard marrow is to my taste superior to both. A rival in speed _)f growth to the marrows has been the passion flower, which for on,e in a way has developed a number of buds out of doors.