IN Paradise Adam gardened for his own pleasure ; it was only after the Fall that he was compelled to dig in the earth and earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. So throughout the ages gardening has been primarily a hobby-an affair of old clothes and pottering about, after the day's work, or the work of a lifetime is done. Colonel
Durham is Secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society, but even that official body recognizes the true inwardness of gardening, as is shown by the appropriateness of the title that he has chosen for his talk tonight.