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 That
was a peace-time couplet. "Not yet must the flowers invade the fat green
hinterland of the war-time allotment", A Northern newspaper recently
declared. As it pointed out, fresh allotment produce末garden stuff, too末is
going to be of immense value during the first few years after the war, when
there will be a great strain upon road, rail and all transport. The man who
can grow his own produce on his own plot will not only be making an
important contribution to a smooth transition from war to peace, but will
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 The Ministry does not rule out
flowers altogether. As the Northern newspaper happily put it: "Now and again
an allotment holder will disinterestedly set himself to cheer us all up by
bedding out末in true peace-time parkland style末with lobelias, geraniums,
pansies末just a happy fringe of them along the hem of his plot." The
Ministry itself has said, in effect, that not more than one-tenth of
peace-time flowers should be grown, but the paper puts it better with its
phrase "just a happy fringe", adding "But behind this gay facade wholesome
produce grows in abundance".
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