In My Garden If my correspondence •is any test, the
desire among cotunry-house gardeners to sell their produce (both for the sake of not wasting it and for profit) grows continually. It is of course almost impossible to sell occasionally, in small quantities or in times of glut ; but there is a ready and profitable sale for a regular supply of many sorts of produce. From one garden have gone to market this year a great many bunches of scabious, which has a long and free flowering period, and of corn-in- the-cob. These cobs have fetched as much as half-a-crown apiece ; and presumably are retailed at "ruble this figure. This vegetable seems at long last to be increasing in •general popularity, in the garden if not on the farm, though I know of one farmer who- siloed the stems and sold the cobs as a -green vegetable.. More rapidly growing and ripening varieties have been found, and the Cloche has enabled the gardener to sow earlier, though glass is not a necessity in the south.
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