APPLE GROWING

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 48, 27 February 1933, Page 9

APPLE GROWING

ADVICE TO BRITISH ' FARMERS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, January 17. . In a statement issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, British farmers are urged to grow more apples. _ It is not beyond possibility, tho Ministry states, as a result of recent developments in cold storage, that this country could supply its entire needs, but m tho meantime a "less ambitious" plan, is suggested which visualises tho planting of 40,000 acres of land with 4,000,000 applo trees, or one-third more than the number of trees already bearing fruit in Britain. "Our climate is ideal for dessert apple production," tho Ministry states, "for it helps in the growing of a fine apple, thin in. skin, with abundant juice and high flavour." The varieties recommended arc Worcester Pearmain, Ellison's and Cox's Orange, and Laxton's Superb, and a warning is given concerning the necessity of spraying. Those varieties, it is added, will give a succession of ripe fruit ready for the market from September to January, while the season can be extended, up to April if suitable apples are put in cold storage just before they are ripe. In regard to tho possibilities of the market, it is pointed out that, in 1931, 7,600,000ewf0f apples, valued at about £7,900,000, wore imported.