LETTERS: SUGGESTION: PLANT ROSES BETWEEN JACKSON, CAPE

To the editor:

I miss the roses between Jackson and Cape Girardeau. I remember driving to Cape Girardeau when I was a child on the two-lane highway with the embankments covered with roses. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch dedicated one of its rotogravure issues to the Ten Mile Rose Garden. One couldn't decide which was more beautiful: the red, the pinks or the whites.

As I drove from Cape Girardeau to Jackson recently, I noticed that stretch looks like just any other business strip along any highway in the United States with the same mix of businesses and chain stores you'd see anywhere in the country. Pity.

Do you think public opinion could influence those landholders to plant roses to add a bit of beauty? The hillsides are so stark now.

ELIZABETH N. BORDEN

Marble Hill