17 AUGUST 1951, Page 16

In the Garden

- We stilt have our gardens. The honeysuckle begins to bloom again ; the roses open their second season ; the white salvia and frilled white daisies take the place of the Regale lilies ; the quinces swell and the apples begin to bend -their boughs. With the serenity of imperceptible gradation one season slips into another. But 1 can only think of the violence threatened to the Valley of the Honddhu by the host of the