In the Garden The National Gardens Guild (152, Edgwarebury Lane,
Edgware) is an organisation that all should encourage who wish well to gardens. It particularly aims at the increase of gardens in and about towns, factories and new housing estates and, not least, in connection with prisons. Gardening, after all, is a spiritual as well as an aesthetic and dietetic occupation. So is the allotment, which also comes within the circle of its activities. The Dutch gardeners are sympathetically interested in the work, and presently the Guild is to make a week's tour of Dutch gardens when the May-flowering tulips are at the height of their splendour. The Dutch, of course, are in the lead ; but it is to be remembered that South Lincolnshire—at the western end of the valley which runs east to Holland—grows more and more floriferous and is well worth a pilgrimage in tulip time. W. BEACH THOMAS
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