* * * * Syon Park It is an alarming
announcement that a Committee of the Middlesex County Council wants to turn Syon Park, on the opposite side of the Thames to Kew Gardens, into a sewage farm. The Duke of Northumberland, the owner of Syon Park, objects to the proposal, and there can be no immediate danger of the spoliation of one of the most attractive bits of river scenery near London, as there would have to be many stages of negotiation before the property could be acquired. Still, public opinion must make itself felt. No one who has ever looked across the river from Kew Gardens, has enjoyed the sight of the .water meadows which are just as they have been for hundreds of years, has watched the barges lifting on the flood tide, and has been incited to dig again into history and Shakespeare by the plain but impressive face of Syon House, will fail to be moved by the propoial that all this should be given up to sewage. There must be some other site which would be in a public sense much " better " even though less convenient.
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