19 OCTOBER 1945, Page 14

In My Garden

The best berries at present on show are on the loaded boughs of a wilsonae barbery, the best of all the dwarfs. Blackbirds, which cleared the mountain ash before the berries were *ripe, are now busy on the hips of an enormous bush of the moschata floribunda briar. I have never before seen such large edible-looking fruit on the cydonia japonica, though this