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IN order to encourage planting and the beautifying of the countryside as one aspect of Coronation celebrations, the Coronation Planting Committee has been formed under the presidency of the Marquess of Lothian, with an office at 68 Victoria Street, Westminster. The Committee is fully representative of practically all associations which aim at preserving the beauty and natural scenery of Great Britain. Its objects are explained in a pamphlet entitled “For King and Countryside: Towards a more Beautiful Britain”, and it may be recalled that the scheme was launched at a meeting in Guildhall on November 26, 1936. Other booklets have now been published dealing with the village and how to make it beautiful, commemorative tree planting, design of allotment areas, play-parks, window-box gardening, etc. The Committee has also issued a leaflet with suggested forms of competitions for village communities, in order to foster pride in the village, floral displays and a care for trees. It is proposed to prepare a volume recording all the amenity schemes undertaken throughout the country in commemoration of the Coronation. The Committee's aims should make a wide appeal especially to those bodies which feel that transitory decorations need to be supplemented by permanent records of the occasion.
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Coronation Planting Schemes. Nature 139, 793 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139793c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139793c0