29 MAY 1947, Page 17

In My Garden A flowering shrub, sometimes regarded as tender,

which seems to have rejoiced in the frost is Viburnum Rhitidophyllum. While the hardy V. Tinus has lost all its flowers and some of its younger shoots, this Viburnum is now a mass of great white discs, and the queer rather fleshy leaves are undamaged. While some common Barberries suffered more than usual, the precious Thunbergia and Prattii and the white-stemmed Dictyophyllum are now in superb form and did not so much as acknow- ledge the frost. In the vegetable garden the potatoes (and strawberries) have evaded the frosts, but seed was bad, and gaps in the lines are more than usually frequent. It will be interesting to see the result of planting potatoes in some flooded districts a month later than the normal date.

W. BEACH THOMAS.