CORRESPONDENCE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1663, 30 June 1887, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

[We do no*, hold' ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents. To ensure publication, ' however, it will be necessary for writers to avoid personalities. 1 FLAVORLESS FRUIT. To the Editor of the Star. Sir, — I would like to make a few enquiries through your columns, if such kind of apples are known io tbe colony as the Annual, or Anwell Souring (Auwell being the nam ■ of a village in Oxfordshire). To my mind it is a kiud of apple very far superior to any I have met with out here, and I am satisfied that if it possesses anything like the rich flavor it does at home, deserves to be extensively grown. It is very hardy, productive, and has an exceedingly .rich, acid flavor; comes to maturity early, so far as its cooking qualities are concerned, and will retain the same for tbe whole twelvemonths with anything like fair treatment. It is rather a long apple streaked with red, and red on one side, which gives it a rich appearance as a dessert npple. Late in the season, when other apples are scarce, few kinds have its equal. The foliage is a deep rich green, which adds greatly to the appearance of the tree when laden with its rosy fruit. It is well adapted to withstaud the strong winds of this colony. Should any of your readers consider the Anwell Souring, or Annual Souring, to have already been introduced, I would be greatly obliged by being informed - where trees and fruit are - obtainable through your columns. Another apple, the Winter Blenheim, was a good, . full-flavored, serviceable kind — good ? cropper, good keeper, and good cooker. We seem to require full flavored kinds if it were ouly to mix with our colonial ones. There is comparatively little difficulty in getting fresh and true kinds from home, as grafts would be most readily sent out in good condition. What with the communication and the cool chambers, such difficulties are at the present time reduced to a minimum. Grafts being out in season aud tl c ends cut put into grafting wax or anything that would keep them airtight until they were required for use out here, I have no doubt that they would -" keep all right for something like three mouths. Trees, if taken up in the autumn and kept in a cool dry place, would keep in good couditiou for months. It is a quality not ouly in apples but in almost everything else we must depend on it we are to ensure getting a ready and good market. — I am, &c, Thomas Mann. Opunake, Juue 28. P.S. — I have not seen an answer as yet to my question as to the mannral proper* ties of milk and dairy waste. I We are noder the impression, though it is but un impression, that the apple referred to is " Hanwell's Souring." — Ed.]