13 AUGUST 1932, Page 12

* * * OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS.

A good many old-fashioned flowers are coming back into favour, most of them considerably reformed and polished by modern science. At the head of the list stand the mallows, most of which have dropped their family name for more difficult syllables. The small flowered group, known as the sidalceas, are rapidly becoming among the most highly treasured of rough-border plants. They blossomed profusely among the later delphiniums and made with them one of the most charming of contrasts ; and they are now blooming with the stocks. Their quality of redness is much desired in the border ; and they supply in the newer varieties a pretty graduation of tints. It may now be said that you must have sidalceas.