13 OCTOBER 1944, Page 14

FIGS AND GRAPES

Sut,—The writer on " Country Life " in your issue of October 6th, who contrasts with the Midlands the " almost subtropical" climate of Kent, where he has gathered " ten green figs " in September, seems to have had exceptional ill-fortune elsewhere. I have had in an Oxford garden several dozens of ripe figs during September and some at the end of the first week of October, and quantities of outdoor grapes are ripening.