FLORAL VAGARIES
Sts,—Mr. Harold Nicolson in his interesting article on Iran in your issue of September 5th told us how Teutonic ruthlessness had succeeded in making the hard scarlet of the salvia and the lurid colours of the canna replace the delicate shades of the iris and the lilac in the theological-college garden at Isphahan. I have not been to Persia, but Baluchistan and Kashmir have somewhat similar climates, and in those countries the lilac and the iris are the flowers of early summer, the canvas arrive with the greater heat, and the salvias usher in the first cold airs of autumn. I will not argue about the canna, though I have my doubts, but I find it difficult to believe that even German efficiency could force the salvia to bloom at the time of the iris and the lilac.—Yours truly, A. G. DYCE. Strete Ralegh, near Exeter.
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