June 3—Those who still believe that pollen from Privet flowers is one of the causes of the distressing symptoms known as Hay-fever, will be interested to know that the tree' will shortly be in full bloom, some trees are already in flower; but the panicles on many are still in bud. We do not believe that the Privet flower hag amy connection with the complaint, but it is possible that some very sensitive persons may be affected when they come inío close contact with the flowers and their pollen. Some of the grasses flower at the present time and these may be the culprits. Rambler roses of the "Dorothy Perkins" type, which have been making a fine show in local gardens for the past week or so, are beginning to feel the effect of the hot weather and are fading: however, some are still beautiful; we saw a very pretty display in a garden yesterday, blue sweet peas had been planted below a pergola of pink rambling roses and the colour effect was very charming. Sweet Peas have had a peculiar flowering season this year, many plants were showing a large number of flower buds and they were looking very strong and healthy over three weeks ago. Heavy rain caused all buds io drop off with the result that flowers were scarce around Empire Day: a few days of fine weather, however, made a great difference and flowers appeared ín thousands. In some gardens that we know, blooms were cut by the basket-full in the morning and the rows were a pic-
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