2 FEBRUARY 1951, Page 19

In the Garden After that excitement I am too breathless

to attend to the garden this week, except to seek assurance that my transported yew hedge looks none the worse for its removal ; and to remark that in a friend's garden over at Tenterden I saw the Gentian Acaidis in bloom on January 20th: remarkably early. The almost mineral blue of this intense, alpine colour always fills me with surprise. This gardener also had a handsome show of navelwort (Omphalodes Luciliae) set in beds of crushed stone in a