SURPLUS PLANTS
" SPECTATOR " READERS' RESPONSE [In our issue of July 20th, a correspondent, Mr. G. Bell, of Shilton, Oxford, suggested that many people would be glad to receive the plants which are often thrown out by gardeners in the process of cutting back or for other reasons. We therefore appealed to our readers to let us know if they would be willing either to supply such plants, or to arrange for their distribution where they were needed. We have had a splendid response to this appeal, which has also brought to our notice a number of organizations devoted to the same objects. We shall be glad to put any further volunteers into touch with the distributing agencies, and with the private individuals who are so enthusiastically co-operating in this scheme. The organizations do not yet cover the whole field. There is room for extension of. this work, which is, by practical means, helping to create that appreciation of beauty without which no scheme of social amelioration will ever achieve its whole object. —En. Spectator.]
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