14 MARCH 1947, Page 18

In My Garden What a protection snow may be has

been palpably shown in this long frost, though some bush flowers, such as the naked flowered jasmin, have been scotched. Ground flowers, including the bumble lungwort, have kept their freshness, and the spears of the bulbs hay:: lengthened. Snowdrops have been delayed ; but they are the best of frost-resisters, partly from the drooped head of their modesty, partly from a peculiar virtue, discovered, I think, by the great Austrian botanist Kerner, so well adapted into English by Oliver. The cup carries, be- sides its beautiful drop of colour, a drop of permanently warm air.

W. BEACH THOMAS.