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THE VALUE OF APPLES AS FOOD. 
There is piopably a good dietetic reason underlying our accepted use of 
apples, or apple sauce, with pork, rich goose, Yorkshire pasty, mincemeat, 
and similar dishes. Apples have excellent medical qualities! Chemically, 
the apple is composed of vegetable fibre, albumen, sugar, gum, chlorophyl, 
mallic acid, gallic acid, lime, and much water. Furthermore, the German 
analysts say that the apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus than 
any other fruit or vegetable. The phosphorus is admirably adapted for 
renewing the essential nervous matter, lecithin, of the brain and spinal cord. 
It is, perhaps for the same reason, rudely understood that the old Scandi- 
navian traditions represent the apple ns the food of the gods, who, when they 
felt themselves to be growing feeble and infirm, resort to this fruit for 
renewing their powers of mind and body. The acids of the apple are of 
signal use to men of sedentary habits, whose livers are sluggish in action, 
those acids serving to eliminate from the body noxious matters, which, if 
retained, would make the brain heavy and dull, or bring about jaundice or 
skin eruptions or similar troubles. The mallic acid of ripe apples (either 
raw or cooked) will neutralise any excess of chalky matter engendered by 
eating too much meat. It is also a fact that such fresh fruits us the apple, 
the pear, and the plum, when taken ripe and without sugar, diminish acidity 
in the stomach rather than provoke it. Their vegetable sauces and juices 
are converted into alkaline carbonates, which tend to counteract acidity. 
DAILY CHRONICLE. 
Messrs. H. Cannell and Sons, Swanley, had a large exhibition of 
fruit in the main building, illustrating unmistakably Kentish culture, 
proved very interesting. Silver Medal was awarded. 
DAILY GRAPHIC. 
Messrs. Cannell showed an admirable and complete collection 
of apples and other fruit, the whole showing unmistakable evidence 
of the superior culture of Kentish garlens. 
THE GARDEN . — September 30(A, 189*. 
Messrs. Cannell and Sons, Swanley, occupied a large space showing 
a collection of apples. The best dishes were Colonel .Vaughan, 
Scarlet Nonpareil, Coxa Orange, Queen Caroline, Emperor Alexander, 
King of the Pippins, and some seedlings of great merit. Silver 
Knightian Medal. 
THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE . — September 30(/i, 1893. 
Messrs. II. Cannell and Sons, Swanley and Eynsford, exhibited a 
large collection of apples which showed how well suited their nurseries \ 
at Eynsford are for these fruils. The examples were throughout above 
the average in size and very highly coloured. The Council awarded 
it a Silver Knightian Medal, (ltoyal Horticultural Society’s Show.) 
Messrs. Cannell had an excellent collection of fruit. (Earl’s ; 
Court Show.) 
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