In the Garden We are advised—by no less an authority
than the experts of the Women's Institute—to dry our lawn cuttings for use as fodder for pigs and poultry. Doubtless the advice is good ; but this fine grass has many garden uses when freshly cut, and the drying is a difficult process. I have found it especially useful both as a weed subduer and a manure in the raspberry cage. It is too valuable to waste, and becomes a menace when left in heaps to ferment. I see that The Gardeners' Chronicle (the most authentic of advisers) recommends especially the little hardy but delicate Campanula Caespitosa for humble rock-gardens. I have tried the wild harebell, which is as lovely ; but it grows quite twice as high in the garden as in the wild and becomes rather too straggly for its Alpine neighbours. That is one of the troubles of a garden ; wild things
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