22 JUNE 1934, Page 17

A Good Shrub The other day I went over the

garden of one of our greatest gardeners. He showed me of course, very many rarities and wonders ; including a houseful of plants growing from seed brought. back from " the roof of the world " by Mr. Kingdon Ward. He delighted in his own treasures ; but had a word for common things. One of the most salient shrubs in the wide spaces of his garden was, and is, Viburnum. tomen- tosum, which in his wise view is the most useful of all shrubs for the common garden. It grows as easily as a wild guelder, is very floriferous and has individual inflorescences that are both quaint and lovely. How many people who would love it fail to grow it—that is a great gardener's view, that all who saw this particular bush will endorse.