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American Leader's Indictment of the Germans. To the Editor of the Cur TY TiMEs. Sir,—Your article this week reminded me of the resolution of Mr John Burrough, the famous American naturalist. When I read it I said to myself "Them's my sentiments," and hoped that Britishers all over the world would become cognisant of it and form a similar i-esolutioii.-Yours truly, 9, High Street, Brecon. W. »T. BORROWS.. June 29th, 1918. [COPY.] I will never again use an article made in modern Germany, if I know it. I will never look into a modern German book I will favour the exclusion of the German language and literature from our schools and colleges and I would drive every unnaturalised German from this country. We do not want their ideas or their methods, t!eir ideas are subversive of our democratic ideals and their methods enslave minds and lead to efficiency chiefly in the field of organised robbery they are efficient just as Krupps' guns, asphyxiating gas and liquid fire are efficient they invent nothing, but they add a Satanic touch to the inventions of others and turn them to infernal uses. They are without sentiment or imagination they have broken completely from the old Germany of Goethe, Kant and Lessing, to whom we all owe a debt they are learned in the roots of things, but i their learning is dusty and musty with under- ground conditions. They know the tree of I y knowledge at the bottom, but not at the top in the air and sun where are its leaves and fruit they run to erudition but not to inspiration, they are a heavy materialistic grasping race, forceful but not creative, military but not humanistic, aggressive but not heroic, religious but not spiritual, brave it may be but not chivalrous, utterly selfish and thoroughly I scientific and efficient on a low plane, as organ- ised force is always efficient. I' Kant was a great philosopner, but he had a Scottish mother. None of the great musicians was Prussian. Luther threw his ink bottle at the Devil, but the Devil got even with him and I made the Christian outlook blacker than it was before. I From current reports which, knowing the Germans, one readily credits, they are at this moment taking means to increase the birth-rate by methods identical with those of stockmen and dog breeders. That German women do not defend themselves with liquid fire and asphyxiating gas shows that their morals are as low as those of ¡ the men and that they are victims of the same civic slavery. The Germans have not fought this war like, brave and chivalrous men, they have fought it like I' sneaks and cut-throats, they have respected nothing human or Divide, and so far as they could make it so it has been an orgy of lust and II destructiveness. When their armies are forced to retieat, so far as they can do it. they destroy the very earth behind them they have doiie their utmost to make the reconquered territory of Northern France uninhabitable for generations. If they could poison all the "water, all the air and all the food of the enemy, is there any I doubt they would quickly do so ? If they could have scuttled or torpedoed the British Isles and sunk them like ships would they not have I done it long ago ? Of course they would have wanted to plunder the treasures and violate the I women before doing so, and then the Kaiser, piously lifting up his jeyes before his people, j I would have thanked God for His faithful j co-operation," and would have prated how he I would carry on this war with humility and j chivalry. I This indictment of the wretches could be î made much stronger and longer, but enough, Individually they are* below the Turks, collectively they are on a par with their ancestral Huns. Blood will tell. I? is time they were barred out of the family of decent self-respecting nations, or at least that the doors were closed against them for two I generations. We haw got along for three years without their goods or their markets. Why can we not continue to go on without them V We are an inventive people, they are not, and we shall soon find ways to supply I I ourselves with all the needful things that have heretofore come from their country. Under pressure we shoujd improve on fliem all. If we cannot yet make chemicals and dye stuffs to compete with the Germans let us go in sack- cloth and ashes until we can. At any rate, let us not fraternize with nations who in conduct and character are on a par with those despera- does whom in civil life we rid ourselves of by the aid of sheriff and hangman. 0 I

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THE WEEK'S GARDENING. HINTS TO ALLOTMENT WORKERS, All housewives will bless the gardener who keeps going a small bed of herbs in his allotment. They are little trouble to cultivate, but they do add so appreciably to the value of certain foods when cooked. Thyme is a very useful herb which only requires the minimum amount of care to grow. It can be raised either from seed or by cuttings, or by dividing tho plants. An open position is [ necessary, as full exposure to the air increases the aromatic properties, much of which is lost when the plant is smothered up with other things. For keeping purposes, thyme should be cift ,when it is at its height of flowering. It is a great mistake to mix together all kinds of peas for cooking. All one variety should be picked together of pods about the same age, for all varieties do not cook alike, and a mixture spoils a dish. The youngest are ruined before the oldest arc pro- perly done. Another mistake is to let the pods hang on the plants" till the peas are hard, for this not only spoils the culinary value cf the pons, but s the strength of the plants, and they do not produce any more. Savoys can be delicious if grown properly, but the coarseness or otherwise of this plant depends very largely on the treatment it re- ceives. A poor soil and overcrowded rows produce small-hearted, tough-leaved plants. Veiy good soil should be ghen if fine large hearts arc wanted, and ilie plants should be put in 2ft. apart. There are several varieties —the Drumhead is, of course, the best known one, and can be grown to form good, though very large vegetables for winter use. Another variety, the Perfection, attains the same size as the Drumhead, but many gardeners think it ^s superior in flavour and cooking qualities. There are also smaller varieties, which grow more quickly and produce nice tender hearts. The weather up to the present has not been good for the transplanted onions. Some seem to be standing still in the ground, showing little signs of growth, and others are begin- ning to form immature flower heads before their time. Where this is the case the flower heads should be picked off at once. This was tried last year at the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens with good results. Where the plants are growing very slowly weak liquid manure should be given and plenty of water. A spell of really hot weather will bring all the crops on well. and they be yet in a fit condition for eating at the proper I time. Considerable damage may be done by I manure being wrongly applied to the crops. Solutions of liquid manure should never be over strong, and once they are applied should ¡ be continued regularly. Liquid manure made from artificials must be applied very care- fully, so that none of it may drop on the foliage of the plants, and it must be suffi- ciently diluted. Either kind should not be given in dry weather, or when the soil is dry, only after a good watering or shower of rain. Sudden running to seed in celery is often I caused by green fly, which gets into the heart of the -plants altd HUfViip-bc-R at ud a x-ite that the whole plant is quickly 'covered. Watch should. be made for this pest, espe- cially this year, as it is very prevalent, and the surest remedy is to pick off the aphides with the hands. Soapsuds containing a little paraffin are good to use as a spraying mixture over the plants, but hand-picking makes sure of every one. Seeds can still be sown for late crops that are not wanted till the end of this year or in the early autumn. Runner beans, if well I manured, can be put in where late winter broccoli has been taken from. A trench about 2ft. wide should be taken out to about the 2ft. wide should be taken out to about the same depth, and the bottom well filled with II well-decayed manure, leaf-mould, and so on, to within Sin. of the top, then some nf the original soil may be put in. The seed should be sown 9in. apart in'double lines. "Late )In!1.S may also be sown .in the colder parts, though dwarf-growing varieties are the best. Silver- skinned onions for pickling may also be sown, as well as any ordinary varieties for use in salads. Lettuces, radishes, and small carrots l can be sown as well. ) A good many people are now willing enough to confine their flowers to their front garden, in many cases only a' small one. And even this ] is now often seen to be growing {-arrets and beet. Among the varieties of beet which pro- duce good-shaped roots, useful both as a salad and when cooked as a vegetable, is the willow-lefN'ed beet. This variety has long red leaves with a graceful drQop. It is a tall plant, and can be grown easily in small beds or borders. Seed should he- sown from the beginning to the middle of June, either where it is to grow, or in boxes for transplanting. It is best to make a little bed of it in the vege- table garden or allotment. then thin out the sturdiest roots for planting in the flower gnrden. Those who are cultivating the vegetable I marrow for -the first time this year will be worried by the falling off of the voung marrows when about an inch long. This is generally due to want of proper fertilisation, be avoided by taking the male bloom, the outside petals, and dusting the centre of the female flovrer v. it 11 the pollen. By comparing the blooms it can soon be seen what is the difference between them, for the bearing blossom will have a tinv marrow at its base. It. is best not to allow the marrow's, especially the first ones, to grow too large, for they are a C!l'eat strain on the plants, and will soon cause them to leave off fruiting. The planting out of winter greens should be hurried on with, so that they get a good time to mature. The ground should be "in a fine, condition, and though some gardeners put them in with a trowel, a dibber i- very much quicker. If the ground is very dry, dip the roots in a pail containing a "puddling" mix- ture of earth, water, and. soot. After plant- ing. the earth should be made firm about them. for. as old gardeners will snv. it doesn't matte" how much von walk about on the beds." They resist frost better, as well as insect pests, and grow stronger and more sturdily for being made firm. Leeks may be dropped straight into holes made with a dibber, and allowed to earth themselves up.' This is the quick method, though the proper method of earthing up is necessarily more to be Recommended.

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THE WEEK'S WORK. I 4 Sow stocks for winter'blooming. Overhaul greenhouses and frames. Remove faded flowers from herbaceous plants. Increase verbenas by pegging down. Stake and water regularly gladioli. Continue to plant out maincrop celery. Sow late dwarf beans. Earth up leeks. Pinch out side shoots of tomatoes. Stop broad beans to check black fly. Spray plants infested with aphis. Sow lettuce for autumn use. Mulch and manure raspberries and remove suckers. Stop side shoots of red and white cur- rants. I | Straw-band apples for codlin moth.

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