21 SEPTEMBER 1951, Page 13

In the Garden

The apple-harvest is very late this year, but Beauty of Bath was ready in mid-September. I had one, but cut it down as uneatable. In our curious age apples are sold rather for their colour than their taste and this purely facial beauty with nothing behind it is streaked and spotted a bright red on a yellow ground. One of the next " earlies" is Worcester Pearmain of a rich purplish-red and sold for the same reason. But the wise man lets it hang till November when it becomes