6 APRIL 1944, Page 14

IRONING OUT THE COUNTRY

SIR,—A speaker on the wireless recently mentioned the longing of the townsman for buttercups and daisies, but in the Paradise of the Ministry of Agriculture will there be any more buttercups and daisies? When high farming has supplanted permanent pasture, and the old hedgerows where the primroses and violets nestle are replaced by electrified wire fencing, and the roadmen have eradicated the brambles and ragged robin and the mists of wild parsley from the lanes, the children of to- morrow will have little nostalgia for the country.—Yours faithfully, E. MILLICENT JACKSON. Hill House, Ashover, Chesterfield.