22 JULY 1949, Page 17

In the Garden Thanks to a kind gift I have

grown a number of that rather strange hybrid, the cross between the carnation and the sweet-william. They are now in full flower. A number of the varieties (in which Allwood specialises) are perhaps rather quaint than in the strict sense lovely, but they are worth growths, if not a rival to the very dainty Allwocdii type. One of their not unattractive oddities is a very finely cut petal, a little suggestive of the wild " Ragged Robin," only more so. W BEAat THOMAS.