3 OCTOBER 1947, Page 17

In My Garden

The brightest show of berries in my paddock is given by two intermixed bushes of the wild Barberry and Guelder. Those on the Barberry are worth preserving and have a sharp pleasing savour that is very individual. It is a bush well worth growing, and now that it is no longer banned, as a host to wheat diseases, we may plant it with a free conscience.

W. BEACH THOMAS.