In the Garden
Now that it is too late to grow any vegetable in the open for this year (with the possible exception of colewort) one thinks of the system of the French gardener or maraicher. His year may be said to begin in mid autumn, and he pro- duces vegetables of several sorts about the time that other gardeners are beginning to sow. His stand-by is the bell-jar or cloche, while the Dutch gardener of a similar school uses the frame almost exclusively. He is apt to sow several sorts of vegetables, as different as carrots and lettuces, at the same time under the same bell-jar and by virtue of a cunning mixture of hot manure and rich humus, his stuff grows at an astonishing pace ; and it is a general rule that the more rapid the growth the more succulent and wholesome the product. The bell-jar of the French sort might well have
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