17 AUGUST 1945, Page 14

In My Garden

I do not know that wasps are particularly plentiful this season, but all there are in my neighbourhood seem to have discovered a tree of Langley pippins. They arc quite right. I should put this variety absolutely first among very early apples. Incidentally, a spaniel that is particularly fond of eating windfalls (as indeed raspberries and black- berries) invariably shows a preferet.ce for Cox's, if one can be found. It is curious that while the earlier peas were untouched, the bird's, chiefly. I think, tits and blackbirds, have fallen greedily on the later succession.

W. BEACH THOMAS.