11 APRIL 1947, Page 17

In My Garden

In a trip taken along the Fen floods in the neighbourhood of God- manchester and the singularly interesting region by Earith I was astonished to see the amount of glass used for farm cultivation, some of it in the form of houses, some of it in cloches. Some fields look like the French gardens round Paris or the Dutch gardens by Delft. There is no doubt that the portable cloche has now proved itself; and become almost a necessity of the garden. It enables sowing to be done earlier, if only by keeping the ground dry and warm, as well as giving protection to the grown plant. Tomato-growing out of doors has ceased to be a gamble.

W. BEACH THOMAS.