29 OCTOBER 1927, Page 14

Some while ago it would have been scarcely possible to

carry out the idea, at any rate in the October garden. But of recent years few flowers have been more radically improved and varied than Michaelmas daisies. They contain as many purple and mauve shades as an Emperor could desire, and in some sorts the yellow of the centre has flowered into the outer petals. The blooms are different in size and in shape of petal, and what is not less valuable, the habits of the varieties are very different. It may be added, for those who wish to pluck flowers for the house, that the habit of the variety called Climax is ideal. No other sort has similar long lateral sprays.