A Garden of Peace
In Argentina, so I am told, a " Garden of Peace " has been laid out with beds containing plants especially characteristic of the various countries. England would be all right with the rose, and Ireland with the shamrock ; but would a bed of thistles and leeks give a peaceful reaction to the Scot and the Welshman ? It would not be easy to say what are the most distinctly native of flowers—in France, Italy, Russia or where not. In Argentina itself I was most astonished by the quantity of wild zinnias growing among rough scrub and in Newfoundland the golden rod. In Germany the cornfields are often as blue with corn- flowers as they are red with poppies in East Anglia. Kangaroo-foot would represent perhaps West Australia with say, Gidea and the raspberry jam tree ; but selection would be a tough problem.
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