‘Tradescant’s Diary’: Hugh Johnson; Adam Ford: ‘Our Garden Birds, No 21: The Starling’; John Akeroyd: ‘Spring’s Cloth of Gold: Celebrating Cowslips’; Katie Campbell: ‘ London’s (Secret) Islamic Gardens’; Charles Hulbert-Powell: ‘The Hickory: Our American Arborial Cousins’; Tony Hufton: ‘A Walk with Fruit: Foraging (and Scrumping) On Foot from Norwich to Rome. Part II: Vercelli to Rome.’; Alex Fenollar: ‘Doubts & Droughts: Maintaining a Spanish Garden’; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: ‘The Doctors of Dejima: Plant-Collecting in Long-Ago Japan’; Stephen Barber: ‘Rooting Out Ancient Trees in Japan’; Martin Stott: ‘Meeting the Rose Rescuer: Murray Radka in New Zealand’; Clark Lawrence: ‘Volunteers and Visitors: Weeding Before a Wedding at La Macchina Fissa’; Tom Petherick: ‘From the Home Patch’; Sam Llewellyn: ‘Digging with the Duchess: Subterranea’; The Garden Arts (Books, Exhibitions,Music): Judith B Tankard on Gravetye Manor: Twenty Years’ Worth Round an Old Manor House by William Robinson. Introduction by Tom Coward; Afterword by Elizabeth and Jeremy Hosking; Rosemary Lindsay on Hedgelands: A Wild Wander Around Britain’s Greatest Habitat by Christopher Hart; Peter Dale on Lost Gardens of London by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan; Rosemary Lindsay on A Gardener’s World: Flowers in Song. Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano). Audio CD and MP3. American Book Notes: Judith B Tankard on Private Newport: At Home and in the Garden by Bettie Bearden Pardee; Living Newport: Houses, People, Style by Bettie Pardee; The Blue Garden: Recapturing an Iconic Newport Landscape by Arleyn Levee. Exhibition: Garden to Canvas: Cedric Morris and Benton End (20 May-18 June, London); Index to HORTUS issues 149–152 (2024); Front Cover: Flowering Hyacinth Bulb by Emily Patrick, Oil on Panel.