I AGREE completely with the views expressed by Richard Lutwyche (Standard, July 10) on the need to preserve wild flowers and leave verges uncut, wherever this does not affect visibility.
Verges have become essential to the survival of many wild flowers as modern farming methods have obliterated them from farmed grasslands.
The former richness of our natural flora and fauna in meadows and woods has inspired many young people to become botanists and zoologists. Young people today should have the same right to a world rich in plant and animal life as past generations have enjoyed and the chance to be inspired to study the biological sciences, to which Britain has contributed so outstandingly in the past.
PATRICIA LOGAN
South Cerney
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