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'THE BEST ONE CAN FOR THE FUTURE': Gertrude Jekyll sums up her gardening aesthetic. She ends this letter (giving vent to a loathing of litter that Michael Silverman very much shared): "Alas our pretty country here is becoming sadly spoilt – Every road is littered with waste paper & every cross road disfigured with hideous signs".