6 JULY 1944, Page 14

In My Garden

The habit of eating vegetables raw increases ; and it may bc said every salad is improved, certainly in health-giving qualities, by grit vegetables, both the leafy and the bulbous. A new subject for s treatment is suggested to me, the kohl rabi. An enthusiast for t vegetable has just discovered that, first, it is excellent raw, and, scum should be shredded and cooked in its own juices without water. deners who are suffering from the black fly, very prevalent dila year, find that derris powder can be effectively sprinkled with no more ela