UNEMPLOYED GARDENERS
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Early in the New Year we purchased a piece of land for factory extensions, and we do not anticipate that we shall require this until the autumn of 1935. We arranged for ten unemployed men to clear the land, which took approximately four weeks, and have now got them settled with a good sized allotment each, free of rent, with free vegetable seeds, fertilizers, and tools, i.e., the costs of these items have been defrayed by us, following our purchase of the goods in ques- tioti on their behalf from the Society of Friends Allotment Association.
We have also, provided these men with a small supply of seeds for annuals, but they arc "still hungry" for a garden which not only grows vegetables for them, but which grows flowers, too. We can best sum up the position by repeating what one of them said to the writer a little while ago—" I'm
turriblc ' fond of flowers."
If some of your readers, in overhauling their gardens during the course of the spring, have a few perennial roots or any other cuttings, &e., &c., to spare, and will send these to us to the address below, we can assure you that they will be put to the fullest possible use—that they will be appreciated, and will bring a little extra pleasure into the somewhat drab lives of some of our coal-miners who have been out of work literally for years.—I am, Sir,
1..; It NEST H. TAYLOR.
(General Manager, Joseph Lingford and Son.) Bishop Auckland, County Durham.
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