5 JULY 1946, Page 14

BATHROOM HORTICULTURE

Sm,—Mr. Richard Church writes in The Spectator of June 28th of the variety of fungi already in the fields—due to the wet summer. Today rather to my surprise I found two well-grown mushrooms on the wall of the bathroom. These cannot belong to the cuckoo type, and I am much relieved that, in spite of the lack of variety so feelingly spoken of by Mr. John Strachey, my hostess does not propose adding them to our