In My Garden
That beautiful bush, which we ought to call Cydonia, not Pirus, Japonica is this year unusually full of fruit, some of it of a large size. It is worth while making it into jelly, just as apples or other quinces are made. As to the preserving of vegetables, none is more worth-while keeping than dwarf or runner beans. Few people trouble to prest!rve their marrows ; but if put on a dry shelf they keep well for a good many months, and to some tastes are better to eat in February than in September. Both marrows and pumpkins have swelled as satisfactorily and rapidly as the Harrow football in the song, and have anticipated the frosts by an unusually wide margin. The weather has been generously abused, but it has been favourable to a great number of essential crops,
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