27 MAY 1949, Page 20

Ire the Garden The garden at Sit. Pod's Walden (which

eaves 117101I of its charm to the "flaxen thumb" of that shill' ul gardener, the Queen's mother) was opened to the public last week and rained much money for the nurses' charity. The greatest virtue of the garden, to my eyes, is that it has no formal pima. It is not sternly divided into herbaceous border, rock-garden and die rest. Even the rosegarden is ant cut off. ihmneyarcides climb whew they will. Most important of all, every section benefits from floweriog sinoths, which are not segregated from other flowering plants. Quantities of hear roses and mond* assees WitEC all ft* lidenassa at the early date of limy Mb, absagh I saw no specimen of time =erase of al, tfaemutiin„