In the Garden One of the plants that, after several
weeks' absence from my garden, I found flowering very freely was a recently planted climber nick-named " Mr. —'s potato crisp." Its proper title is Solanum Crispum. It is a very pleasing climber and, unlike many a solanum quite hardy. The flowers are blue, purple and orange, as in most of the tribe, but of a good size and comely form. it is ideal for the small garden where wall space is not abundant and such climbers as wistaria and clematis (now also in magnificent flower) are too rampant. It is best on a trellis. In spite of tales about the cold and the enormous hail-stones of the South (contrasted with the delightful weather experienced in West Scotland and Cumberland), strawberry flowers were undamaged and the apples had set well.
W. BEACH THOMAS.
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