In the Garden The flower-gardener—if he may be recognised—must be
utterly ruthless at this season with his Michaelmas daisies, even with the new and popular dwarfs. It is probably best to dig up and replant only one rooted stem. Reward comes in the size of the flowers, and the gardener solves the old difficulty of associat- ing other plants with these greedy and spreading asters. It is best to plant the graceful yellow, Aster Luteus, separate from the rest. It flowers earlier, and does not " consent to a mutual relation." Since the making of compost heaps becomes general, to the great advantage of production, it may be worth while to repeat a little device that was very successful—experto crede- this year. If the layers of vegetable refuse (whether treated with a chemical or not) are covered with a few inches of soil excellent mushrooms may be grown from " bricks " inserted in the spring. The rest of one such pit grew good tomato plants. As a post- script may I add that. correspondents desire to know the best recipe for the home curing of ham and bacon, or the simplest method of extracting the sweetness from sugar beet.
W.-BEACH THOMAS.
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