1 MAY 1971, Page 20

COMPETITION

No. 648: The meanest flower

Set by E. 0. Parrott: The garden season is on us. and doubtless the Chelsea show will give us many more new varieties of flowers, fruit and vegetables, many of them named after well- known personalities. Competitors arc asked to give in not more than 150 words the appropriate description, details of cultivation, flavour, scent, or whatever of any two such items, which are suitably named after any current well-known personalities (suitable weeds can be included). Entries, marked 'Competition No. 648,' by 14 May.