ti the Garden Several correspondents have asked for fuller particulars
of seed-collections put up for the Women's Institutes by a gh-class firm of seed merchants. I am afraid these are, how- Cr, available to members only, and the nearest and best substi- Ste I can recommend is the Good Housekeeping collection, eady advertised in The Spectator. Of its fifteen interesting rieties I am most attracted by a golden climbing bean, a new ilow tomato, calabrise (a delicious sprouting broccoli, which I ve praised again and again), and a new water-melon which be grown outdoors. Celeriac, endive, salsify, kohl-rabi, a new ede, and sweet-corn, are also included. Correspondents are tinually -writing about sweet-corn. The text-book rules are .tat it should be sown under glass in April, and planted out in warm spot in May on rich, deep-dug soil. Or it can be sown 'doors at the end of May. What the text-book does not entiod is that pollination may misfire if the plants are planted a row, and the best suggestion I have seen is that they should Planted in a square. Also thin the cobs, leaving two or three
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