12 SEPTEMBER 1946, Page 14

'In My Garden Those who make apple jelly of the

abnormal number of windfalls, victims to recent gales, may care to be reminded that no flavouring so delicately enlivens this often dull conserve as a leaf or two of the scented geranium. It gives a suggestion of Turkish Delight. Those who grow fruit in very small gardens are sometimes compelled to plant only self- fertile fruit trees, and among such, though I do not think the books say so, I find that pleasant pear Louise Bonne an unusually regular bearer, though widely separate from other varieties. " Fertility " (improved) is

quoted as one of the most surely self-fertile. W. BEACH THOMAS.