The declaration.by Admiral François Dar-lan, Vichy Vice-Premier, in.which he de-
June 1—It is rather surprising how many different kinds of vegetables can be grown well in a small garden and how interesting the vegetable garden can become if properly looked after. The owner of a house on Colum-
"bluster and If Admiral Darlan persists in the direction he is going, he will not be saving the French Empire but merely turning it colony. In view of the fact cent. of Frenchmen in un-r Admiral Darlan': some courage. Or is the explanation that he was goaded to desperation by his Nazi mas-ith the promise of the rebia Road has allotted an area of about half a mow for the growing of vegetables and we were so impressed by the results achieved that we made notes of all crops growing as we sat under the friendly shade of a Persimmon tree which was just beginning to show fruit. In some parts of the world, persimmon trees do not have a very long life owing to their protific fruiting habits and with a view to preventing the loss of trees, much thinning of fruit takes place shortly after it has set: nature was assisting man in his work on the tree we saw for many of the surplus fruits were dropping off. A plant frame close to the tree is being used for a novel purpose; there ig no room for a rubbish heap in the garden, so all garden refuse is placed in the frame where, we presume, it will remain until the Autumn when it will come in very useful for manuring the beds. The first bed we inspected was full of fine, healthy carrots whilst, in the second, tomatoes, neatly tied to stakes, were over a foot high. Red cabbage also occupied a little space in this bed. Pepper was being planted in the third and cucumbers, over 2 feet high, were in the next: chrysanthemums were growing between the rows, but these will probably be transplanted shortly. At the end of this bed, we noticed Spring-sown leeks. Peas occupied the centre row in the next bed and a later crop of tomatoes was planted in the outside rows. There were also tomatoes in miral Darlan alleged that Britain had illegally seized 792,000 tons of French shipping, but the Ministry points out that Admiral Darlan himself admits that of this 36,000 tons was Free French; 142,000 tons was immobilized by order of President Roosevelt—with which Britain had nothing to do—and 86,000 tons was sunk while in the direct Service of the Germans. It was officially aded by Vichy that 250,000 tons of French the adjoining bed as well as a fine lot of red cabbage with large heads as hard og iron. Healthy cauliflowers shared the next bed with beetroot, but they had the next one all to themselves. Two varieties of lettuce were planted at one end of the next bed while kohl-Tabi was forming its turnip-like, above ground roots, at the other. The greater part of the following bed was occupied with Swiss chard while peas and more cabbage were planted in the "next. Bush beans were next to the peas and they were a fine lot; good beans are not common this year for red spider has played havoc with many crops. The last bed was full of lettuce and a vegetable that we are not quite sure of: the gardener told us that it was
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