FLOWERS AND A SUBMARINE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1166, 17 June 1911, Page 11

FLOWERS AND A SUBMARINE.

Sweet peas for "The Daily Mail" .£IOOO prize are being grown in all manner of possible and impossible places by gardeners of every degreo of experience; but probably the most dashing attempt of all is being made by officer gardeners on board one of his Majesty's submarines. Iho methods are as original as the environment. The peas are getting on admirably. Perhaps it may bo found that the rjuaint conditions suit them peculiarly; and that an alternation of submarines and aerial air, slightly impregnated with ozone, is tho ideal at which gardeners should aim. The peas were sown in pots by the lieutenant in charge. From the dav that they came well above the surface they have been taken daily for a sort of constitutional, n breath of fresh air. on to tho conning tower, and the whole crew takes a vivid interest in iheir development. In order to stimulate growth thev are subjected daily to electric shocks, anil who knows what secret of growth may not b9 penetrated by this experiment? They are both men of science and gardeners in the Navy. It has been decided that tlio crew, in spite of their interest and the assistance rendered, are not to bo regarded as gnrdpners._ whose plurality would disqualify the lieutenant from competing It is honed that the freshness of the sea air will keen them from the premature flowering which some other south-coast gardeners fear; and any amount of scientific retardation, or, if need be. acceleration, may bp practised by variations of electrical and aerial treatment. For Children's Hacking Cough at NHit Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is. 6d.'* Tho unusual spectacle of a fashionable wedding in Whitechapel was witnessed recently, when the Key. Lionel Lewis, vicar of St. Mark's, was married in his own church to Miss Lilian Vercker, daughter of the late Captain the Hon' Foley Vereker. E.N., and niece of Eleanor viscountess Gort.