20 MAY 1949, Page 16

In the Garden After some denials it seems now to

he generally accepted that the spindle, that beautiful wild shrub, is the chief host of the abominable, foul black fly that attacks the broad beans, now at the height of their incomparable fragrance. I had to banish it from my garden years ago, but was told that the fly had so many hosts a few spindles did not matter. But they did. The best ways to defeat the fly are to sow in autumn not spring, to pinch out the tops, and if need be spray with liquid D.D.T.

W. BEACH THOMAS