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revel in light soil and sunsliine — and Lavender and 

 Rosemary. A whole garden could be planted with 

 these alone to represent hard-wooded shrubby growths ; 

 other plants specially suitable for sandy soils are 

 described in the chapter already referred to. 



In many of these small camp gardens there is a 

 want of shade and shelter and privacy. A capital 

 hedge, ten feet high, quickly grown, handsome and 

 profitable, is made by the ordinary way of growing 

 Scarlet Runner Beans. Let the occupier of the camp 

 garden provide a good supply of strong bean-poles, 

 and a few of the hop-pole size, and he can make 

 arbour, pergola, and outer screens, and have walls and 

 bowers and covered ways of magnificent and quick- 

 growing vegetation. The Gourd tribe alone will make 

 a summer forest of great leaf and almost greater fruit. 

 Grandest of all are the Potiron rouge of the French. 

 The Mammoth Gourd is as large a fruit, but to my 

 eye the taller-shaped is less handsome than the flatter. 

 I have grown them of more than a hundred pounds 

 weight ; this was over the low-tiled roof of some 

 garden sheds. The ordinary tiles were unable to 

 bear the weight, so they were replaced with a very 

 large and strong tile, and each great fruit as it grew 

 was provided with blocks to keep it in place. In the 

 camp garden some of the lower fruits would have to 

 be given strong seats such as an Army and Navy 

 Stores case would provide, and higher up in arbour 

 or trellis some simple bracing of short pieces of pole 



