5 OCTOBER 1945, Page 14

In My Garden What a blessed race is the Cotoneaster!

If you have a Simonsii to stand upright and a Horizontalis to lie down you will never miss winter berries. The birds seem less fond of them than of the very similar Pyracanthus, which in my experience gallops up a wall but is slow and dwarfish as a bush. We may also bless the Viburnum. My Tinus has been in flower for a month and will doubtless be still flowering, when Fragrans and Ritidophyllum catch it up. The berries of the wild Guelder are now