CHILDREN AND THEIR DINNERS. [To THE EDITOR or THE "
SPECTATOR.") SIB,-TH your very interesting article last week on food for the poor, no reference was made to the apple, which is a most important article of consumption. With bread, potatoes, and apple pudding, children will flourish without meat. Apples are so abundant this year in the Vale of Taunton, that the branches
of the trees afe broken down by their weight. Careful house- keepers are now busily engaged in making apple jam, no bad substitute for butter, for which I am giving is. 6d. a pound. Apples, my doctor assures me, are not sufficiently valued as an article of food. Moreover, if the farmers in orchard countries would grow apples for cooking purposes, instead of making-cider, and prune and watch their trees as in America, a. double produce- may be obtained.—I am, Sir, Sze., _ARTHUR KLNGLAKE.
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