13 AUGUST 1932, Page 12

These delicate flowered varieties came in on the heel of

the large flowered mallows that do not deny their close relationship with the two common wild varieties, one as beautiful as the garden sorts, the other too near the magenta tints to be altogether pleasing with other flowers. The coarser lavatera is not less in demand than the sidaleea ; and it is favoured by what may be called the new herbaceous philosophy : that a fine border can be made with the minimum of expense out of half a dozen sorts of plants, if they are properly planted in successive drifts ; and the common lupins, now procurable in a hundred tints, and the mallows are two of the standards of this form of gardening.

W. BEACH THOMAS.

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