26 SEPTEMBER 1947, Page 13

Favourite Apples This year's experience confirms my prejudice that almost

the best of eating apples, of course after Cox, is Saint Everard, in respect both of taste and consistency, and it is a small apple. Its predecessor in date, Langley's Pippin, seems to me the most pleasant of the earlies, and it bears consistently, at any rate, as a bush. A sweet and very crunchy apple, which bears well in standard form each year, is Ellison's Orange ; but it has, at least to my palate, an oddly medicated savour, which classes it among the (possibly) acquired tastes. Just when to pick apples is always a problem ; but the belief grows that many, especially such good keepers as Bramley's Seedling, should be gathered before they are ripe.