THE OPENING YEAR 



Vegetables for Small Town Gardens 



Vegetables are rarely grown in small town gardens, 

 partly because space is very limited, partly because 

 supplies are brought to the door by greengrocers. 

 Practically only Scarlet Runners are grown, and gener- 

 ally seed of this popular old vegetable is put in with as 

 keen an eye to the brightness of the flowers as to the 

 tenderness of the pods. The plants are grown to cover 

 a fence or an arbour. Half-a-pint of seed will suffice, 

 and it may be sown in May. 



Jan. 



Vegetables for Suburban Gardens 



Suburban houses are well catered for by green- 

 grocers, and as the space available for gardening is but 

 little, as a rule, the greater part of it is generally devoted 

 to flowers. Suburban gardeners should devote whatever 

 space they can spare to vegetables to comparative 

 delicacies, such as Beans, Peas, early Potatoes, Tomatoes, 

 Lettuces, and Radishes. They should not give it up to 

 coarse things like Greens, which smell abominably in 

 wet weather, and are a nuisance to everybody. The 

 following would make a good selection for a small 

 suburban garden : — 



