6 MARCH 1942, Page 14

In the Garden The hours of supreme activity in the

garden approach, in date not in season. By a beneficent arrangement with Messrs. Suttons, Women's Institutes are distributing boxes of the more useful vegeta seeds (at 3s. 3d.), and the scheme is likely to increase even last output from cottage gardens. One of the vegetables not included the leek, which seems to me perhaps the most useful of all. It aar vives almost alone into the barrenest period of the Sear—the spring—without the need of storing. Why is it generally neglect in small gardens? I discover that many cottagers have never tasted and very few grow it. Most wisely, some of the County Agri-al Stations are to grow plants for distribution. It would be well :f example were followed by owners of big gardens.

W. BEACH THOMAS•