In the Garden A number of gardeners, it is to
be hoped, are preserving their own seed, especially of such plants as beans. It may often happen that there is an excess of big, coarse pods more than enough to supply sufficient seed. In such an event it is well to remember that the ripened beans, even of scarlet runners, are good food and, if not relished as vegetables, make a quite excellent soup. Saving seed is a necessary duty in war-time, but in respect of most plants, Shirley poppy for example, it cannot be done for many years in succession unless very great care is taken in selecting the best plants. The maintenance of quality is a very highly expert business. November is the transplanting month, according to the rough general rule, that deciduous bushes and trees should lose most of their leaves before being moved ; but modern opinion is beginning to favour an earlier rather than a later date ; other things being equal, the wanner
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