10 JULY 1947, Page 17

In My Garden A rather rough and neglected herbaceous border

owes more than ever this year to that agreeable wild plant the yellow loosestrife, an exact translation of Lysimachia, not to be confused with Lythrum. Clumps are not only very full of flower, which is a bright and pleasing yellow, but the flowering period is unusually prolonged, and the plant is one that insists on growing without becoming a nuisance like its too lusty neigh- bours, a clump of Bocconia on one side and of Valerian on the other. Vegetable gardens flourish except in one regard. How many people complain that their onion and carrot seed refused to germinate, and in some the drought was too much even for the potatoes.

W. BEACH THOMAS.