2 NOVEMBER 1945, Page 15

In My Garden Among the most unexpected of late flowers

is the vegetable marrow, which is still producing fruit as well like the out-of-door tomatoes. Raspberries also are in very full flower with a few fruits. In the flower- garden the Ceratostigma, as usual, announces itself as the loveliest bush. Willmottiana would be more widely grown, but for the idea that it is tender. It may vanish, but, like Rome, it emerges more beautiful. Personally, I have a liking for Plumbaginoides (though, of course, the colour cannot vie with the blue of the other). It is so hardy that some regard it as a weed. It is full of blue flowers today.

W. BEACH THOMAS.