25 NOVEMBER 1949, Page 20

In the Garden I wrote recently, with doubtless insufficient admiration,

of the pentstemon and its immense circulation. I now hear that there is2 Pentstemon Society in the United States with study and correspondence circles and conversaziones "where the loves and lives of pentstemons are laid bare." The secretary (Mrs. Grace Babb, of Maine, Ohio) has also British clients. One most successful gardener with whom I talked on the subject said, "I find the petunia more useful!"

W. Beacu