A Particular Plot The movement was very attractively advertised, if
the word may be allowed, at the Royal Show. The allotment was dug and sown in April last on the show ground at Ipswich ; and on the days of the show was carrying most persuasive crops of potatoes, peas, lettuces and other vegetables. A number of the great commercial firms, such as the I.C.I. and Messrs. Suttons, have taken personal interest in these allot- ments. The holders not only grow stuff from the best seeds, but use also the best fertilizers. The art and craft and perhaps the science of la petite culture (for which we have no such good phrase in English) are advanced. Beside the Ipswich allotment was an allotment hut, almost the only allotment but I ever saw in my life that was more or less comely in appearance. Dr. Joan Fry, a distinguished member of a distinguished family, who showed me the plot, is not the sister of an art critic for nothing : she means to give aesthetic value to the garden shack. Our great archi- tects might well do for this humble architecture what Sir Edwyn Lutyens has done for the telephone box. Why should not the R.H.S. give a prize for the best design for an
allotment but .
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