A story in yesterday's newspaper incorrectly stated that Scott Stallard was the photographer for a two-page spread on Bermuda which appeared in the Sunday New York Times. The photographer was Roland Skinner.

Bermuda has received rave reviews in two prestigious overseas newspapers.

The New York Times carried a two page spread on the Island's ecology and plant life with pictures by Bermudian photographer Scott Stallard.

Reporter Paula Deitz said a visit to Nonsuch Island with former Government Conservation officer Dr. David Wingate "gives one the eerie sensation of following in the footsteps of the first settlers''.

She said terraced gardens produced by British horticulturist George Ogden at Fort Hamilton were a delight and a surprise. "The experience seems both endless and timeless, although in reality the distance is only a quarter of a mile.'' Reporter Helen Pickles waxed lyrical about a weekend visit to the Island for a piece in last week's London-based Independent on Sunday.

Of St. George's she wrote: "With its sugar-almond coloured buildings and squeaky-clean pavements, I couldn't shake off the feeling that I was on a Hollywood film set. Much of Bermuda feels like that.'' She adds: "So much about Bermuda is ridiculous: the swimming pool-blue seas, the shorts and brogues combinations worn by the locals, the Hansel and Gretal sugar-topped houses''.

She admits to being taken aback at having to spend $60 on her first night for a couple of courses of food and a few drinks, but was later taken to Le Figaro and Portofino "which serves some of the freshest pasta I have ever eaten''.

She concludes: "My abiding memory of Bermuda is of that late afternoon rum swizzle as I sprawled across two chairs, half in, half out of the sun, a reggae version of `Killing Me Softly' pulsing in the air. Had the bartender offered me a job, I'd be there still.''