the Perfect Green
On May 30th a special conference on "greens" is to be celebrated. Now " green" as a substantive belongs technically
to golf, bowls and villages ; but we may make it generic and include pitcheri and lawns. All these come under the beneficent influence of the Board of Greenkeeping Research at Bingley, Yorkshire, though its experimental plots become more widely distributed. Since last year's annual report was published the bowlers have shown only less interest than the golfers ; and indeed the game of bowls continues to increase its votaries. It is a very widely spread game indeed, perhaps more definitely encouraged by municipalities than any other game. The cry of " Good wood ! " is heard all over the land. Cumberland turf, which fetches astonishing prices, is generally considered necessary, though sometimes its quality vanishes in uncongenial neighbourhoods. Real advance is being made at Bingley in the manufacture and maintenance both of the bowling green and the golf green. Aberystwyth University itself has not done more for farmers' grass than Bingley for players' grass. Mr. Bernard Darwin, whose favourite green at Rye was once destroyed by wire-worm and his putts there deflected, will rejoice to know that the Bin- gley receipt has proved sovereign and, though concentrated, was supplied in hundreds of gallons. Even the wire-worm, which well deserves its English name, cannot face Orthodichlorobenzene plus Jeyes fluid !
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