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Evening Post, Issue 20, 24 January 1935, Page 20

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FATE OF ENGLISH APPLES

Millions of apples lie rotting in the autumn in the farming and. fruitgrowing areas of Great Britain—because they have no market value. Farmers dare not employ pickers, and the apples lie on tho ground where they fall. ■

The wastage of British apples is mainly due to the fact that most greengrocers are selling ever larger quantities of foreign ones. They do so, they say, because the foreign, apples aro better graded and better packed.

London and provincial greengrocers gave their views to » "Sunday Express" representative recently. This is what they said: "English apple growers make the mistake of growing too many varieties. Foreign growers concentrate on perfecting one or two varieties which are eagerly demanded.

"Greengrocers must provide the public with what they want. The fruit growers of this country need awakening to the fact that they must provide us with a steadier .output of certain varieties of apples, rather than experiment with new ones." One Kentish fruit grower quoted the examplel' of the Kentish Pippin,: one of the most popular varieties.' The growers are letting.- this dio out in many cases to experiment with new ones. ' ■ . Tho farmers '■ position is stated in tho following remark:—"Tho. apples we grow are the finest in'tho world. If, they. • wero cheaper .'than the foreigners' the greengrocers would sell them gladly." . '