Letters to the Editor
Letter of the week
One man’s weed
THE reference to hairy bittercress (‘Real men eat ground-elder quiche’, July 15) brought to mind Gertrude Jekyll’s advice on using the weed in a sandwich in her charming book Children and Gardens ( COUNTRY LIFE Library, 1908).
Illustrated by her drawings of the cress as a rosette, in flower and with its explosive seed-dispersal mechanism, Jekyll tells her young readers to cut off the root,
