25 FEBRUARY 1949, Page 14

In the Garden

February becomes a busier month now that portable glass is a common and popular possession ; and a good many vegetables, and flowers, may be safely sown. There is one garden task for- which February is peculiarly suited. A dose of potash to raspberries, for which they have a hunger, is more effective at about this date than at any other. There are country gardeners so firmly convinced of this that they postpone their bonfires of hedge-clippings and such, and the relic potash from such is virtually useless if it has suffered a fall of rain. It must be created now or preserved