More Fruit The shortage of fruit has probably set many
gardeners speculating on the possibilities of growing more of their own. August is cer- tainly not too early to begin catalogue-dreaming ; September not too early to think of preparing the ground. By late autumn, I think, there is just a chance that there may be a run on fruit-nurseries, especially perhaps for the smaller soft fruits. Remember that these can be grown as trained trees, against wire-supports; that magnificent and very early crops of gooseberries can be had from trees on walls. Remember that there are other fruits than the loganberry: the King's Acre Berry, sweeter ; the Himalaya Berry, a strong blackberry from the Himalayas ; the Laxtonberry, a hybrid of raspberry flavour ; the Veitchberry, combining the flavour of a raspberry and a blackberry; the Wine Berry, bright orange, ornamental, distinctly flavoured ; the Worcester Berry perhaps the most interesting of all, a cross between a blackcurrant and a gooseberry, with purplish grape-like bunches of fruit that hang into late autumn. Remember that some apples, and many pears, are self-sterile; that cherries, except the morello, cannot flourish in celibacy. Napoleon and Bedford Prolific need each other ; as do Early Rivers and Frogrnore ; Elton and Napoleon, and so on. Remember that Myrobolan plum-stock is cheap and will be the basis of cheap trees ; that there are other apples than Cox, which will not flourish everywhere. After COX (the Yquem of apples), E. A. Bunyard gave Orleans Reinette (the Lafitte), Claygate Pearmain, Gravenstein, Ribston Pippin and Blenheim Orange as the five apples most notable for flavour.
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