A ROAD-MAKING SUGGESTION.
The importance of saving rural England from the builder
of " concrete mendacities " was discussed recently in the Spectator. I return to the subject, partly to indicate the rapid progress made, partly to urge on the new organization a certain small addition to their activities. Along some of the new arterial roads, for instance half-way between London and Folkestone, deep cuttings have been dug and they are as ugly as some railway cuttings.' It would cost very little, and would help to maintain the banks, to plant there Vac* with flowers and bushes suited to the soil and sites. " They could be made as good to look upon as, say, the coal-tips ingeniously planted with trees and shrubs by the first Lord Aberdare in South Wales. These roads are magnificent, but to pass from a bare cutting to a ribbon of tea-shop shacks and oil advertise- ments is to be back on a railway station on the Nullarbor plain. England clean vanishes.
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