The Practice and Science of Gardening-
' Garden Planning and Crop
Rotations'
F. W. COSTIN , F.R.H.S.
This talk starts a new term, and this term starts a new school year. Once again Dr. Keen and Mr. Costin are to share this series, the former talking to Schools on the scientific side of gardening, and the latter on the practical. side of it.
In today's talk Mr. Costin, who is
Horticultural Superintendent of the West Sussex County Council, is to tell Schools about the importance of garden planning and crop rotation, for these two things are as necessary to the study of garden science as they are to the practical use and enjoyment of gardening. Without management a garden is a place of weeds, of lettuces running to seed, of roses gone wild. It may be a beautiful place for butterflies and artists, but not for the gardener. He must have method, ruthlessness in cutting back, a capacity for work, a knowledge of soil, for he has to make the most of its good qualities and correct its bad ones by intelligent cultivation and manuring.