26 MAY 1990, Page 26

Market gardeners

MY contribution to Chelsea Flower Show week is a new sequel for a classic City story Lionel de Rothschild addressing the City Horticultural Society. `No garden, however small,' he advised, 'should con- tain less than two acres of rough wood- land.' To this I can now add another merchant banking dynast, Sir Ernest Kleinwort, addressing his managers on the subject of the common European clock. British Summer Time had been (tempor- arily) extended through the winter, to bring us into line with Europe, causing a flurry of complaints about the dangers of dark mornings. Sir Ernest voiced his own, complaint. 'For the first hour of the day, he said, 'I can't give my gardeners anything to do.'