ENGLISH APPLES.
The question of the relative value of English and imported apples has been stirring an almost bitter controversy in The Times. It will be generally confessed that the battle has been won by the English optimists, led by Sir Daniel Hall. English dessert apples are as good as the best, and can be grown with profit. Palates, of course, vary ; to mine there is a suggestion of medication about Jonathan, most loudly bruited of all American " eaters," that is apt to pall. A good English Cox or Blenheim or russet or in the early part of the year even the softer and more saccharine Worcester Pearmain, are wholly superior ; and there is something in the often- repeated dictum of a farmer neighbour of mine, that no apple is worth eating unless you can eat the peel, or some of it.
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