Letter: Apple talk

Sir: I sympathise with this morning's letter writer bemoaning the fact that apples are now decorated with little sticky labels. However, what I really object to is that while there must be hundreds of different varieties of English apples grown in this country, I am hard pushed to find one variety in the leading supermarkets.

While I take a reasonably cosmopolitan view of life, I do think that we should be offered some of the fare of this green and pleasant land before sampling the delights of the rest of the world.

Yours faithfully,

ELIZABETH BYFIELD

Middlesbrough, Cleveland

20 July