VEGETABLES, ETC.
THE COMPLETE VEGETABLE GROWER, by Ww. E. Sy FFE Faber and Faber, * English price THE PRACTICAL by T. R. N. Lothian, illustrated; Lothian Publishing Co. Pty., Australian price 95/-. ROM the point of view of this particular home. gardener the more practical book of these two is Mr. Shewell-Cooper’s — net merely because
of the more practical price. He lists dozens of vegetables with charts about sowing, germination, maturity, manures, ete., giving hum-drum hints about the common hoe or the common cabbage just as fairly as he recommerids salsify with a Ssefitence that Samuel Pepys could have written or watercress by explaining the difficulty of finding small plants in a greengrocer’s bundle. At the price, and allowing for the additional mental effort of adding or subtracting six months to the titne-charts, this is a good investment for anyone who seriously intends to keep the whole family in vegetables all the year round. Mr. Shewell-Cooper is the Priticipal @f the Horticultural Training Centre, Thaxted, and in his preface he the impossibility of getting thirty years’ day-to-day experience of gardening and useful ideas about it into a book-but he has matiaged it vety successfully, and I am stite that many gardeners in New Zealand will be encotiraged to be afveriturous about lettucés, fer instance,
and certainly about different and sweeter kinds of green peas, by following his advice and demanding new and cifferent seeds from other countries. Then thére is the huge book of Mr. Lothian’s--pages and pages of charts of dry-area planting, and suitable annuals for sandy soils, etc., charts to show spray mixtures, manures and times to apply; charts on ‘seed germination; charts of winter-flowering shfubs, annuals, trees, rock plants,‘ etc. Dozens of charts for the chart-min¢ed; and pages of li8ts and a very full vegetable planting guide. For anyone with' 95/- to spare and a winter full of leisured ‘evenings this book would make a good present to be given at the end of an autumn. e iflustrations — photographs and drawings by the author, are painstaking and copious, ranging from one showing how to sow seeds between finger and thumb, and the various depths to plant bulbs, to instructions for building cold frames, dry-stone walls, rock-gardens,
garden seats, and so on.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 889, 17 August 1956, Page 16
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