Country Gardens
County societies in all parts of Britain are considering a number of queries put forward to them by a committee of the Ministry of Health. One of these concerns the "merits of common front gardens maintained by the Local Authority as Landlord." There are places where comeliness may be•increased by such central management, but the pleasure and use of a garden are, above all else, a private matter. The emphasis in the famous motto ii faut cultiver noire jardin is on the possessive pronoun, and in these days the need of every householder is to be self-sufficient so far as may be in the production of vegetables and fruit. Another query is more promising. It concerns "the planting of trees both along roads and in house gardens." It would have been wholly good if " fruit " bad been inserted before trees. There is every reason why fruit trees should be planted along roads, and many more—as Mr. Bush is continually urging—ought to be planted in gardens. Even our farmers, who have been notorious despisers of even their own gardens, have begun to see how very large is the contribution of the small garden to the national food supply. On this head it is' good news that the Village Produce Association is to be represented at the Royal Show to be revived at Lincoln on July 1st.
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