23 MAY 1908, Page 16

THE GLORY OF GORSE.

LTo Tag EDITOR or THU " SPECTATOR.' J SIR,—In the Spectator of the 9th inst. in an article under the heading of " The Glory of Gorse" the writer states as follows :—" The gorse does not flower in the Northern cold of Sweden, and Linnaeus, who had never seen the glory of the blossom in his own country, saw it first on an English common, and fell on his knees to thank God for the sight of so much beauty." In Scania, in the South of Sweden, gorse is not uncommon in sandy wastes, where it blossoms freely. A year or two ago I procured some seeds from Messrs. Sutton of Reading, and planted them both here and at Taxinge- Ntisby (in the latitude of Stockholm), and here, as well as in the South of Sweden, the little plants are covered with blossom.