23 DECEMBER 1922, Page 18

A NORTH-EAST YORKSHIRE GARDEN.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On reading of the gardens in winter in Surrey and in Dublin I went round my garden, which is less than a mile from Whitby, on the top of a hill where high winds prevail, and found Chrysanthemums, Hollyhocks (double and single), Sweet Peas, Canary Creeper, Veronicas, Valerian (red), Michaelmas Daisy, Wallflowers, Sweet Rocket, Rose of Sharon, Polyanthus Primrose, Wild Primrose, Double-Lilac Primrose, Geum, Mrs Sinking Pinks, Lavender, Carnations (red), Marigolds, Snap-Dragons, Helianthemums, Cheiranthus Allionii, Campanulas (double white), Arabia (double and single), Yellow Alyssum, Sweet White Alyssum, Creeping Blue Veronicas, Yellow Achillea, Pansies, Violas, Anemone Fulgens, Geranium, Nepeta, Daphne Mezerium, Doronicum, Nemesia, Mignonette, Tegetis, Lithospermum, Aubrietias, Anthony Warterer Spirea, Large White. Daisies, Loganberry, Rose-coloured Centauria, Bush Roses (all colours), Blue Campanula, Sweet Violets, Christmas Roies—forty-seven in