30 NOVEMBER 1889, Page 14

" QUARENDON " APPLES.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Six.,—The above-named apples, to which Mr. Baring Goula refers in his new volume of "Historic Oddities" (side Spectator, p. 724, about the middle of the first column), is undoubtedly the beautiful and brilliantly coloured russet, called by the peasantry " Quarenner," well known in West Somerset, and often eaten by the writer.—I am, Sir, &c., CHARLES H. HIGGINS, M.D.

Alfred House, Birkenhead, November 25th.