An Oxford Garden It is claimed as a salient example
of the advancing modernity of Oxford, alleged home of lost causes, that it has become a sort of headquarters- of agricultural economy. It has long seemed to me singularly suitable that the initiative originally came from St. John's College, since the college bursar was the first who thought of establishing a first-class garden within the precincts. Mr. Bidder's Alpine garden excels even that at the Botanical Gardens. It is a liberal education to walk alongside it. Apropos of agricultural economy, Mr. Orwin sketches the advance of the theme in an article of personal reminiscence in The Countryman, and the tale is interesting, but some of us cannot altogether escape the fear that the emphasis on economics is helping to belittle both the craftsman and the yeoman. The " way of life " is quite forgotten or despised in some of the dreams of the economists, from Mr. Orwin's downwards.
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