In the Garden One of our great authorities on gardening
says that he is pestered for advice on the subject of commercialising the private garden, and especially the herbaceous border. Another garden critic avers that after the first war retiring officers decided to lose money on poultry and after the second on horticulture, against which he warns them! A third suggests that an acre of raspberries can yield a gross sum of £800! The most salient fact perhaps is that no compromise is any good. You cannot grow flowers for aesthetic pleasure as well as profit. The two purposes must be quite distinct. One owner of a singularly lovely garden known to me kept a second garden, from which he sold to good profit bunches of scabious (Clive Greaves) and sweet corn. Growing the ordinary
vegetables for sale is doubtless a gamble. W. BEACH THOMAS.
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