In the Garden
The surviving gander in my orchard is a portly old party whose chief pleasure in life is being mauled by my bull-terrier, a formidable-looking dog of the utmost amiability. She flings herself on the gander, jumps on his back, seizes him by the neck and worries him, you, would think, to death. As soon as she seeks other distraction, the gander rises, shakes his feathers and stalks off with an air of supreme complacence.
Mr. J. L. H. Ohase of the well-known Chase Nurseries at Chertsey has just concluded a seven-years experiment on the best methods of using compost. He equally divided two adjacent plots ; to the first applied a yearly top-dressing without digging and for the second worked the compost into the top-soil one spit deep. The results in the comparative quality, earliness and weight of the crops in each plot decidedly favour the dug plot in the wet year.
H. J. MASSINGPIAM.
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