12 SEPTEMBER 1947, Page 16

In My Garden We are advised to grease-band our trees

against the winter moth. It seems to me that an earlier greasing of some sort is needed against the ants. They will climb in numbers even to the top of a tall pear-tree to nibble at the stalk-end of the fruit. A very little grease-band will stop them. Among otlr flowers few bushes have needed water more than the lilacs, and few plants more than the Michaelmas daisies. How deep roots have scored for example in the quicks, which have quite out-grown