Post by sgeorge1701 on Nov 16, 2005 12:38:49 GMT -5
-- Timeline of Apples!
www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/maia/history.html
Check out 800 BC -
800 B.C.—Homer's Odyssey recounts the memory of his fruit orchard to his aging father:
"12 pear trees bowing with their pendant load,
and ten, that red with blushing apples glow'd". . .
The way Apples spread into the civilised world was interesting - and apples have always been a part of Paradise. So as I had suspected, the Arabs had red and golden apples!
Also, the issue with apples 200 years ago was this:
1790 A.D.—Thomas Andrew Knight of England begins the first controlled apple hybridization program for apple improvement. Agriculturalists are charmed and naturalists are alarmed.
Humans have loved apples and in 1790 - we improved them!
Mmmmmm Apples...
Hey, I have one right here!
Delicious!
Steve
www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/maia/history.html
Check out 800 BC -
800 B.C.—Homer's Odyssey recounts the memory of his fruit orchard to his aging father:
"12 pear trees bowing with their pendant load,
and ten, that red with blushing apples glow'd". . .
The way Apples spread into the civilised world was interesting - and apples have always been a part of Paradise. So as I had suspected, the Arabs had red and golden apples!
Also, the issue with apples 200 years ago was this:
1790 A.D.—Thomas Andrew Knight of England begins the first controlled apple hybridization program for apple improvement. Agriculturalists are charmed and naturalists are alarmed.
Humans have loved apples and in 1790 - we improved them!
Mmmmmm Apples...
Hey, I have one right here!
Delicious!
Steve
