12 DECEMBER 1947, Page 16

In My Garden Acknowledged experts in gardening are receiving more

and more requests for advice in turning private gardens into semi-commercial ventures. One friend of mine, who drew considerable profit from his very lovely garden, made most of his money out of sweet corn and scabious. He began with patriotic intentions, but was distressed to find how much better flowers paid than fruit or vegetables! Sweet corn ought certainly to be more widely grown ; and few crops get greater benefit front the cloche. The only trouble is persuading it to ripen in time ; and the earlier sowing, made possible by the cloche, quite surmounts this difficulty. W. Baacat THOMAS.