The English Garden

An Apple a Day

It is difficult to overestimate the place of apples in British tradition, both for what they represent in history, politics and economics, and their culinary value. Pomologist Dr Joan Morgan and Alison Richards point to this in (Ebury Press), in which they trace the path of apples across continents and peoples, and list over 2,000 varieties of

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