In My Garden
Easter in country villages is always the season of the most intensive activity. This Easter is likely to surpass all Easters within remembrance. Never in the records was such work as making a seed-bed and trusting seeds to the soil postponed to quite so late a date in the year. "Fruit production in gardens could easily be doubled," a village audience was told by a great authority. This has in part been made easy by the multiplication of dwarf stocks, which should be used by all small gardeners. On this and like subjects I am being perpetually asked to give the name and price of good and simple books. They are legion. The Vegetable-grower's Handbook, by A. J. Simons, 2s., and Grow Your Own Food Supply, by W. E. Shewell-Cooper (who is always good), at 9d. (not to mention his A B C of Gardening, at 8s. 6d.), are cheap and good specimens. Several Government and R.H.S. pamphlets are in the
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