4 APRIL 1931, Page 12

CONTINUOUS FRUIT There is another group of men of science—whose

home is near Wimbledon—who are saying very little about their researches :

but some of their hopes were reported the other day by the able agricultural correspondent of the Daily Express. The " geneticists " of Wimbledon, he says, suggest that we may have English-grown apples in every month of the year.

The case might have been put more strongly than it was. The Stunner Pippin which is certainly admirable is not the only apple that will keep till April. Several will keep till

May ; and such standard cookers as Bramley's Seedling so benefit by age that they are very pleasant to eat raw in March and April. The gap between some of the russets— of which D'Arey Spice is the best—and the rosy-checked Beauty of Bath is already very short. * *