The gardens this year are the best! I have seen. Too often the exhibi-for crams too much into his plot: the mass of crowded colour gives one mental indigestion. More discretion Elis shown this year—a rustic cottage fronted by a lawn in which are a few formal beds full of spring flowers; an old barn, an archway through overhung with a cataract of HIaoburnum: a little woodland fronted by a rocky slope to show the newest ideas in rock gardens. But these. to make a real display fare terribly expensive. The flowers that pleased me most are the new hybrid polyanthuses grown by Carter's—huge blossoms of indescribably lovely shades. I don't know whether polyanthuses grow in China, possibly they come from there originally, but even daffodils hardly make a more beautiful show at this time of year. Nurserymen have been giving great attention to them of Tate. with charming results.
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