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SOILLESS GARDENING Sm,—Your reviewer Mr. H. E. Bates' instinctive recoil

from " Soilless Gardening " is shown by Sir Albert Howard in his Agricultural Tes- tament to be well founded. One learns that not only the plant but also the soil must live if the full value of either is to be secured. Vegetable food production depends upon a true symbiosis between

roots and shoots.—Yours faithfully, LHIAS M. JEFFRIES. zo Adelaide Crescent, Hove, Sussex.