THE ENGLISH APPLE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3828, 2 November 1936, Page 6

THE ENGLISH APPLE

“Pomology” a science (if you don’t recognise the name) that began in the Garden of Eden—is very much an English concern, for there are 199! varieties of apples, many grown in all parts of the world, writes our London special correspondent. Some have ancient lineage, as, for instance, the Pearmain, from which the famous Worcester Pearmain derives, goes back to 1294, end others were introduced during the Roman occupation of Britain. One wonders also how many times that first tiny Blenheim Orange, which in 1818 stood in Woodstock, having sprung from an unknown origin, has been multiplied in all parts of the Empire and the United States. It is pleasant these mornings as one strolls round the dewy sunlit garden

and chooses a breakfast apple to think* of .that amiable brewer of Slough, Mr Cox, who well earned the thanks of posterity when a hundred years ago he raised the graft of the first Cox’s orange seedling. Another old amateur, an obscure Mr Bramley, in his spare time produced the world-famous Bramley seedling, and was the hobby of a mechanic which produced the first Chelmsford Wonder. Loom weavers, monks and country parsons are among the simplehearted souls in whose honour our apple trees are now bending under a weight of fruit.