WAYSIDE MARKETS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Your article
on July 4th, with its delightful account of wayside markets in America, opens up most attractive pos- sibilities to small holders and farmers. It is satisfactory to know that one such Market has already been started success- fully by the Small Holdings Colony of the Women's Farm and Garden Association, at Wire Mill, Lingfield, Surrey. Here during the summer produce of all kinds—butter, eggs, fruit, vegetables and flowers—not to mention Angora rabbits and Sealyham terriers—is sold by women working their small holdings. Motorists on their way to and from the race-course, as well as those who are pursuing their usual avocations, stop at our little hut, tempted by the knowledge that they are buying direct from the producer. In this, as in many other directions, women are once more the pioneers.—I am; Sir, &c., CAROLINE GROSVENOR (Vice-Chairman of The Women's Farm and Garden Association).
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