18 MARCH 1911, Page 14

CORONATION BONFIRES.—A PRACTIC AT, SUGGESTION.

[TO THE EDITOR 07 TRB "SPECTATOR."

Stn,—Arrangements are being made for numerous large bon- fires on Coronation night all over the country, and as a little foresight now may save a great deal of trouble afterwards, perhaps you will, at this early date, give publicity to the following suggestion : This is the month when country people burn up hedge trimmings and branches of trees cut in winter, and I would ask other landed proprietors who read the Spectator to save up such combustibles for the Coronation blazes, and not let them be all burnt piecemeal on the fields just now. I have already accumulated a large supply of old hedges and branches which would otherwise have been all burnt up in the winter months.—I am, Sir, &c.,