29 MARCH 1935, Page 15

A Great Little Celandine

No spring flower is brighter with the sense of the season than WordsWorth's friend, the lesser celandine (not the greater which is carved on his memorial). But, pace Wordsworth, it is one of the most persistent &garden weeds, at least as hard to-eradieate—if the word may be applied to a bulb- -as the bindweed or as twitch. Happily a compromise_ is polsible. There is a giant form of the lesser celandine which has the virtues withoUt the defects of the wild 'floWer ; and its presence is pleaSant in' a rock garden, bOth''for leaf and 'flower: It now flourishes delightfully at Kew.

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