23 JUNE 1939, Page 18

Mown Flowers Incidentally, flowers adapt themselves remarkably to artificial handicaps.

A good illustration at the moment may be found in the white bedstraw. It is blossoming very freely on fairways that have been subject to the mowing machine, but looks of a different species from the long-legged plant to be found in the rough. Ling shows much the same capacity. If anyone tempted by the rock-garden appearance of tight, neat, trim and very flowery patches of thyme or of tormentil should be tempted to transfer them to a garden, the thyme will quickly become an untidy straggler with dead-looking stalks and the tormentil will send forth such long runners that they may defy pursuit.