SELECTIVE WEEDKILLERS
A friend whom I suspect has missed his vocation—he would have made a wonderful Hyde Park heckler—asked me the other day, 'Do you believe in selective weedkillers?' It was a question I could answer with enthusiasm.
I believe in all weedkillers, selective or other- wise. I am a lazy gardener. I want partnership in the glory without an aching back. When I said I believed in selective weedkillers I laid myself open to another question about the laws of nature and the balance of plant and animal life. I have not made a study of the effects of the new weedkillers. They seem to he an answer to a prayer so far as farmers and gardeners are concerned. Some sorts of selec- tive weedkillers can cope with scrub or brush and seedling trees and there is no nightmare to the gardener who has more land than he can cultivate like the encroachment of briar and bramble, convulvulus, dock and nettle. All these things can be taken care of by hormone stimulants which somehow make the plants burn up their cells. I am in favour of anything that promises to take the labour out of gardening.
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