ROADS or REMEMBRANCE.
A pretty suggestion has been put forward (in a curiously obscure letter I) by the Roads of Remembrance Association (47 Victoria Street). Volunteers both young and old are asked to spend holidays in transforming into gardens grass plots along the new arterial roads. It is suggested that the Ministry of Transport and local authorities would help. The Association especially urges, besides the broadcasting of seeds, the planting of small trees for blossom, foliage, and fruit, and large trees, such as oaks, for a more enduring remembrance. One would like to have rather more precise and concrete details from this association. Such work has been very effectively done overseas. In the lovely park overlooking Perth in Western Australia, nothing is more lovely than the English oaks planted along the roads, each in remembrance of a soldier who fell in the Great War. It was, of course, singularly short-sighted of the Ministry of Transport not to secure control of a wider fringe on either side the new roads. To correct the error is an obvious obligation.
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