24 JANUARY 1941, Page 11

The Forty Varieties Here then is my list of forty

varieties. It contains three things, omatoes, melons and rhubarb, which are perhaps more strictly fruit, though they are extremely useful foods. Mr. Berry, and he various correspondents who have asked for the list perhaps

little incredulously, may like to note that they figures in parentheses refer to the number of sowings, or crops, of each variety: potatoes (3), peas, carrots (6), onions (2), pickling

nions, white turnips (3), yellow turnips, celery, celeriac, chicory, scorzonera, salsify, swedes, rhubarb, couve Tronchuda, chou de urghley, spring cabbage, calabrese, purple-sprouting broccoli, erennial-sprouting broccoli, broad beans, asparagus, lettuce (4), unner-beans, savoys, haricot-beans, French beans (green and

How), spinach (2), tomatoes (2), melons, asparagus kale, leeks 3), purple cabbage, cress, cauliflowers (2), beetroot (2), marrows, adishes, summer cabbage. There is no stunt about this list, hich contains items of delicious and varied food which may be ound in any reliable catalogue. (It may be worth noting, by the ay, that seeds of many varieties in it were obtained through the omen's Institute scheme, and in every case yielded first-class suits. At half-a-crown the W.I. boxes of seeds, put up by a orld-famous firm, are an incomparable bargain.) Nor, finally, oes the list pretend to be complete; the number of varieties ould be increased, without the slightest trouble, to fifty.