17 OCTOBER 1947, Page 17

In My Garden

The garden is full of strangely untimely flowers. I have a Viburnum (Tinus) and a Senna in full flower side by side, and apples are blossom- ing here and there in a good many orchards. Perhaps the most satis- factory flowers in the garden today are the very dwarf Michaelmas daisies which blossom yet more profusely than their tall neighbours and make a most brilliant edge to the border at a dull season. By far the com- monest butterfly that comes to their lure is the bright little Lesser

Copper. W. BEACH THOMAS.