It was one part of the scheme of the latest
Garden City that it should be fed to a considerable extent by its own agricultural belt ; and this was a plank in which the Society of Friends, the Quakers, took a particular and an active interest. You may, I believe, buy bread in the Welwyn Garden City compounded wholly of whole English flour; but I and afraid that the honie belt has faded out of the scheme : it is no longer integral. However, perhaps the example added some stimulus to a sane and sensible movement. That shops —to give an old example from personal memory—in Newbury should provide the inhabitants of that delectable county town with green vegetables staled by a double journey to and from Covent Garden is a gross example of the evils of over-centralisation, if only because a stale vegetable is as poisonous and almost as unpleasant as a stale egg.
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