3 MARCH 1933, Page 14

A LAWN BOWL.

A certain delightful way of showing spring flowers may be unknown to some householders. The receipt is this : take a cork mat and float it in a bowl of water. Sow grass seed. This will grow quickly and when it is an inch or so high sprinkle it, like a Swiss meadow, with short-stalked flowers. The bowl I look at is a meadow dotted with 'ragwort, hepatica (which means liver), arabis, jasmine, primrose, primula, violet, heath," crocus and snowdrop. As the grass grows it is clipped from time to time and fresh flowers stood up in it. The device gets over the difficulty of finding a use for flowers with very short stalks like the first primroses.