Show GARDEN IS VILLAGE PRIDE DE achievement of english clergyman that Is by no means Impo ble of duplication A charming and instructive picture of at what gardening skill may do tor for a aj z e to be seen been in one ot of the tul ot of Hertford shire hamlets writes au an english correspondent the rector who happens fortunately to be owner of the ground divided into allotments will probably have won before the year closes a hundred prizes at the principal english flower shows the number ho he has already won approaches pro aches the greatest on record the feat has been accomplished without the abo help of any skilled gardener and the whole of the two acres Is worked by the rector and a church official who cannot give more than half his timp to the garden yet in this old garden over the my from a rectory at any rate as old as the reign of henry VIII are to be seen been french beans of a foot or more in length celery fifteen fit teen inches in circumference fe Tence bleached to perfection in pa per wrappings sweet peas equal to 10 those that have won von at leading shows and quantities of roses up to the four point standard of the rational national shows but the special interest of the garden la Is the part of it that has so to speak overflowed into the neighboring allotments the rectors allotment with the prestige belonging to a prize winning patch stands as a model and the example has already exercised a surprising effect on the neighbor alota |