3 AUGUST 1945, Page 18

In My Garden While suggesting recently that the best of

all the Aubrietias, or r cresses, was A. Gurgedyke,- I wondered where it got its name. One the family of its maker writes to tell me. It was raised by a lad in a Reigate .garden and named from a farm in Aberdeenshire belongia to her father. Why don't more of us try to make new flowers? Som amateurs have been very successful of late, as in the case of the lig blue form of Iris Reticulata, which began life in a Hertfordshire garde Flowers, especially in herbaceous borders, began to wane rather ear than usual. It is a good idea, I think, to interpolate a certain numb of shrubs. Today a tamarisk, cut down severely each year, and that la broom-like bush Spartium Junceum, and a bush St. John's-wort, g,