Chapter Second 



THE APPLE (Pyrus Malus). 



"For things we make no compt of, have in them 

 The seeds of life, use, beauty, like the cores 

 Of apples, that we fling away." Festus. 



OREMOST always among fruits interesting to 

 an Englishman is the Apple. The apple is 

 of more use and benefit to the people of 

 England in general than all the other fruits 

 put together. It remains longest in season, 

 and can be used in the greatest variety of 

 ways. No one ever objects to apples. Newly gathered 

 from the tree they are the most brisk and refreshing 

 of all the common fruits of temperate climates. For 

 culinary purposes they are unexcelled ; even when dried, 

 as in " Normandy pippins," their merit remains ; and we 

 must not forget that the most genuinely English beverage 



