18 OCTOBER 1924, Page 14

UNCOMMON WILD FLOWERS.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—T was much interested in Mr. Percy Ripley's •suggestion in the Spectator of September 27th that readers might com- municate their experiences of uncommon wild flowers. Some twenty years ago I was fortunate enough to find the wild Gladiolus in a lonely part of the New Forest ; also another day in September a lovely blue gentian about five inches high— the Marsh Gentian perhaps. Here, the Bee Orchis grows in abundance, but I have never seen the Man, or Fly. The marshes are covered with the beautiful horsebean, and the white stock scents the cliffs as in Canon Vaughan's time.—