29 MAY 1909, Page 26

The English Vegetable Garden. Written by Exports. (Country Life 081e0.

8s. (3d. net.)—.This is likely, as one might suppose from the title, to be a most useful volume. It tells us how to grow familiar things to the best advantage, and it tells also —there is no chapter more worthy of note—how to grow some things which are not familiar. Here is a list of " Vegetables Neglected in English Gardens,"--co,rdoon, chicory, salsify and scorzonera, aubergine or egg-plant, and sugar-corn.