14 NOVEMBER 1947, Page 14

In my Garden Here is a note from a garden

in Argyllshire. "Years ago my hostess and I when in Italy came upon a wood full of wild cyclamens, and we brought some roots back. They flourished exuberantly in this Scottish glen, and are still in bloom this November." The flower is too little regarded with us. How finely it grows in Palestine, for example, on Mount Cannel, and enjoys the semi-wild hardly less than the garden in many parts of England. As to Scotland, even the glorious Himalayan poppy (Meconopsis Baileyi) will establish itself in open woodland.

W. BEACH THOMAS.