plants are always on hand, raised in the government green houses 
but as yet quite unknown in regard to their behavior under different 
conditions of climate and soil. Mr. Peter Bisset, Bureau of Plant 
Industry, Washington, D. C, will send a list of the species on hand 
and an experimenter's card giving directions, and will cordially 
welcome co-operation. Since these plants must be grown by individ- 
uals before they can become a practical asset to the inhabitants of 
this country, the members of the Garden Club will be doing a valu- 
able patriotic work. 
Mr. Robert A. Young, an enthusiastic specialist, will not ask 
you to grow vegetables but to eat them and cry his wares for him. 
The dasheen, eaten for hundreds of years by millions of people in the 
Orient and proven to be very digestible and nutritious, is now being 
grown through our Southern lands and is ready for the market. 
Mr. Young will give the address of growers on application and also 
send pamphlets of recipes. The delicious flavor of the Japanese 
vegetable, Udo, the delicate taste of the Chinese cabbage, and the 
healthful properties of unmilled rice are among his recent discoveries. 
The address, Bureau of Plant Industry, will reach him, and his 
answer to inquiries is sure to be full of interest and of value. 
Anne MacIlvaine. 
Garden Club of Trenton. 
A Swimming Pool and its Setting 
Living as we do on the banks of Lake Erie, a swimming pool 
sounds the most unnecessary of luxuries, but we found to our keen 
disappointment that bathing in the lake was out of the question, ow- 
ing to the sewerage and dirt which are swept down the shore from 
Cleveland. On mentioning the subject of a pool to the architect and 
builder, they vaguely hinted at unspeakable difficulties — quicksand 
and solid concrete foundations thirteen feet in thickness, etc. The 
vision faded as the expense grew, but the grading for the terraces 
facing the lake was being done by a contractor whose specialty was 
concrete tanks and bridges, and during some conversation relative 
to the work on the retaining walls he told of a small reservoir he had 
recently built on the slope of a hill, which had cost between four and 
five hundred dollars. Our hopes rose once more, and, after careful 
figuring, he guaranteed to build us a swimming pool thirty feet long 
by fifteen feet wide, eight feet deep at one end and three at the other, 
for four or five hundred dollars. The draining was comparatively 
simple, the lake being only thirty feet away. It was built in a few 
weeks of solid reinforced concrete, twelve inches thick and painted 
with cement paint a dazzling white. The actual cost was $550. 
