2 AUGUST 1940, Page 10

Patriotic Plants

Last week I pulled up the plants from a very unpatriotic bed of asters and sowed carrots in their stead. Hating to kill the flowers, I thrust them into a serried group in a rough comer, and to my great astonishment they did not so much as wilt, so the flowers were saved and the vegetables, I trust, gained. There is still time to sow such vegetables, and one advantage of belated sowings is that the special grub enemies have long ago become moths. And how very comely an edging of carrots can look! The leaf is as lovely as any. So—in the wild carrot, now in full bloom—is the flower.