1 MARCH 1946, Page 14

In My Garden In the little spring bouquet by my

elbow are included, beside primrose and snowdrop, two heaths, lungwort and laurustinus, which perhaps has the longest flowering season of any plant or bush. The irises, still in quantity, have a vase to themselves. Both the Mediterranean heath and camea happen to have the double virtues of flowering in winter and of flourishing (unlike most heaths) in a chalky soil. The gardener, who is sowing parsnips, those sluggish growers, says that old seed is useless. It certainly tends to lose germination, but fifty per cent, will last fu