In the Garden It was a melancholy experience for a
very efficient grower of cucumbe to be obliged by a drastic order to destroy his go:ants when in full bea ing, in order that he might put in tomatoes. though the plants were not ready. The tomato doubtless is a very useful food in war-time, and cucumber is not. Happily private growers are cultivating than ever before: it has been said that out-of-door tomatoes n properly in middle England only once in three or four years; but th ripening is a virtual certainty if they can be planted dose to a wall whi is open to any prolonged sunlight. Flower-beds in such places sho be sacrificed; and if bulbs were grown there they will benefit (especially they are tulips) by being taken up. There is little advantage in kee these bulbs out of the earth, but they greatly benefit by being separat from the offshoots or subsidiary bulbs. Those—and they are most of —who desire a large onion yield are advised to be careful to di cracks in the soil of the bed. Such cracks are the favourite nursery
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