1 NOVEMBER 1946, Page 18

In My Garden

It is pleasant to find new bushes and plants, as may generally be done at the shows of the R.H.S.; but it is also pleasant to see old friends. For example, one of the winners in an autumn-foliage exhibit was Liquidamber, which I have thought the best of the maples ever since I knew it in an Oxford garden. Lord Aberconway's prizes recalled his most glorious garden, where one autumn I found a bush of clerodertdron foetidum smothered with butterflies, while a lovely blue-flowered ceratostigma was the exclusive favourite of humming bird hawk-moths.

W. BEACH THOMAS.