29 APRIL 1949, Page 18

In the Garden The flower-pot that disappears—it is made, I

think, chiefly of peat— is a godsend to the rather lazier gardener who does not possess a " green thumb." It enables you, of course, to put out your seedlings without any disturbance of their roots er check to their growth. But there is a danger both in such pots and in the blocks of fibre in which the roots of some bushes are enclosed by careful nurserymen. I have known the fibre to kill a plant in a very dry season when watering was omitted by the too idle gardener ; and a fair amount of moisture is needed if the peat pots are to disintegrate to the best advantage of the roots.

W. BEACH THOMAS.