17 JUNE 1922, Page 13

RURAL AMENITIES.

[To eat EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Wimbledon Common is now a place of reproach owing to its defilement by paper and bottles. Most of your readers have, of course, been brought up from childhood to remove any sign of their presence from any picnic ground, even on the remotest hillside, but the great public have never bad this training.

The Conservators of Wimbledon Common could do much to educate the public by courteous notices requesting every picnic party to gather up their own immediate refuse and by placing

sufficient wire baskets.—I am, Sir, &c., A COMMON Loves.