Hyde Park (Lawns and Flower Beds).

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture. – in the House of Commons at on 6 July 1925.

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asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, whether his attention has been called to the untidy and unkempt condition of the un-mown lawns at the eastern end of Hyde Park, between Grosvenor and Stanhope Gates, during the past two months; whether he can see his way to restore at any rate some of the flower beds which used to give pleasure to the public prior to the War; and, failing the planting of these beds by his Department, whether he will allow leading florists to give exhibits of their plants in these beds?

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