Spring offensive
Sir : One cannot feel any sympathy for Mr David Oldman (Letters, 7 June), with his heartless contempt for British by-ways and gloomy prognostications about the Chelsea Flower Show.
I trust—and here I speak for rose-raisers, countless chrysanthemum-cullers, and for- get-me-not fanciers innumerable—that this delightful institution will continue to pros- pef; and that fancy will continue to out- work nature, sans concrete, and (even more preferable), sans such crotchety Cassandras as Mr Oldman.
Mr Oldman speaks condescendingly of scruffy by-ways' bn• t for one,
tar prefer the British by-ways and the crooked roads of Chesterton to our crow- ded and competitive motorways. To which, incidentally. Mr Oldman has the effrontery to refer as 'planning'! His final discrepancy is to remark that they 'are fast becoming more attractive': I waive the attraction of these highroads, but surely not even Mr Oldman has the blatant cynicism to call our motorways fast?
Jeremy Maule Walpole House, The King's School, Canter- bury, Kent
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