12 JANUARY 1929, Page 15

NEW FLOWERS.

In more than one technical review of the garden year, two plants, mentioned more than once in the Spectator, are quoted as the most notable novelties, both brought from Asia by Mr. Ward ; the blue poppy (Meconopsis Bailyi) and the lusty polyanthus (Plarindae). Both plants are worth the attention of small (and poor) gardeners as well as the more plutocratic, for both are hardy and both come well from seed. In the case of plants from seed it is astonishing how very little dearer are the best than the worst. It is very different with bulbs (which often serve us six or seven years) and bush plants, which are often needlessly dear.

W. BEACH THOMAS. W. BEACH THOMAS.