30 AUGUST 1940, Page 11

Tame Weeds A pleasant addition to a garden, as it

seems to me, is the inclusion of a patch given up to wild flowers, and one of its virtues is that it is at its best when the rest of the garden is apt to become a little dingy. Willowherb, yellow loose-strife, scabious, snapdragon, St. John's wort, bedstraw, pimpernel all blossom late and freely. It is in the interval between oxlip and agrimony that the wild patch is inferior. Among the weeds that must not be permitted are bugle, tormentil, and dogs' mercury. All are too lusty and vagrom.