24 SEPTEMBER 1937, Page 17

Floral Afforestation

There is, of course, a wild Michaelmas daisy. It is very common by the Norfolk coast, off the Ely marshes, for example ; and it is perhaps worth while giving their head to the sturdies and lusties of less finely flowered sorts. They will grow like anything on a rough bank or among coarse grass. Some superfluous roots that were thrown rather than planted in such places last year are now nearly five feet high and a mass of blossom. In the purlieus of one country house, an essay in afforestation of mixed conifers and deciduous trees has been agreeably qualified by a free planting of Michaelmas daisies and cotoneaster simonsii. Both have flourished and help to supply, one the bowls of cut flowers, the other jars of berried branches.

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