29 AUGUST 1947, Page 18

In My Garden One of the great advantages of - sowing

some garden crops late in the season is that they are then quite free from their worst pests. For ex- ample: the late peas this year and the late carrots are insect free; much unlike their main-crop predecessors, which, as one pedant used to say, were terribly " skolekobrat," eaten up by grubs. Thanks to the hot suns, late-sown annual flowers, such as cornflower, already decorate with plenty of blossoms the gaps in the herbaceous border. W. BEACH THOMAS.