14 AUGUST 1915, Page 18

WILD GARLIC.

[To TUN EDITOR OF THE "SPECTLTOR.1 Sin,—Where the ground is not too rough for the scythe, the easiest way to kill bulbs and perennials is to mow them con- stantly. If your contributor" A.M. D." (Spectator, August 70) had mown his wild garlic whenever it was a couple of inches above ground there would have been very little left at 'the end of the, seCond year. Farmers who do not want trippers in . their fields destroy narcissus in this way, and I have myself easily killed beds of nettles by constant mowing. You have to see it done. The ordinary labourer thinks it wastes grass, and his unwilling eye misses isolated clumps.—I am, Sir, &c., GARDENER.