Apple History
Apples have been around since the dawn of time......literally. They were
plentiful in the gardens of Eden. There must have been an unlimited number
of varieties, even then. Of all those apples around in day one, only the
fruit of one tree was forbidden.With several thousand varieties to choose
from, can anyone explain to me why great, great....great Grandma "Eve" ate
an apple from the one and only forbidden apple tree in all of Eden?
Now fast forward many, many centuries. Along comes a fellow named Sir Isaac
Newton (1642-1727) . He's sitting under an apple tree one day, and "bam!",
an apple falls on his head. Great mind that he is, he starts thinking about,
and formulating the "Laws of Gravity".
About the same time, settlers are arriving on the shores of America. They
bring with them, apple seeds. Sailors knew the value of fruit on board to
help avoid Scurvy. The seeds inside the core were later planted in the early
orchards of American colonists.
As we move into early the 1800's, we find settlers are heading west across
America. John Chapman is among those who are lured west. Along the way, he
plants apple seeds wherever he goes. With the rooting of each apple seed
in fertile, virgin soil, so grows the legend of .....Johnny Appleseed.
Did you know? Having been around since the dawn of time, apples and
apple growing has been well studied. This study of apples and other firm
fruits is called "pomology" and takes it's roots in the Latin word "poma".
For more history, see:
The History
of Apples
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