THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Janvary 11, 1919, 
By APPOINTMENT. 
FOOD PRODUCTION 
IN THE 
GARDEN 
d 
FLOWERS 
- 
Published in accordance with the P of 
the Order issued by the Board of Tra 
POST FREE ON APPLICATION. 
Horticulture 
and the Cessation of Hostilities 
URING the past four years gardeners’ 
thought: and energies have been devoted 
t 
onsequence that great developments 
de in i of home-grown 
sowing and g uo their own crops will in the 
future wish to give it up. 
Now that the sterner uses of the garden are 
passing, owners will turn their attention once more 
to beautifying their Kosie h the English 
Flowers which have n brought uc I- 
ction, and for which the homes of England were 
so rencwned during the long years of peace u 
e reconstruction of the garden must be gradual, 
like all ks of reconstructio h e 
efor : ust not ct during 1919 
to be able to restore our flower beds and borders 
to the full glory of the Spring and Summer of 
1914. 
Much, however, can be done by the sowing 
of annuals for the Summer beds, such as Asters, 
elight dur 
Wallflowers, Polyanthus, and ns 
transp lant d this year will ensure a right dila 
die spring of 1920. 
Time thought, and money devoted to Flower 
Seeds in 1919 ‘will give no less satisfacti n and 
ven greater pleasu ure than was derived fr. m the 
getable garden in the war years. 
One of the beneficial а of the war will 
be that vast numbers will find new pleasures in life 
that had ne before octet го them, and one 
of the с hief of these will be their dH ves and 
vegetable: garden 
THIS 
THE ROYAL SEED ESTABLISHMENT, 
READING 
January 1, 1919. 
