Term Paper on "Apple Trees"

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Apple Trees

Apples are among the oldest of all fruits cultivated by fruit growers. (a Modern Herb: Apple) Compared to any other type of fruit that grows on a tree, the apple is more extensively cultivated and more useful to man. From the long past, apple trees have been cultivated for their fruit. Many people have articulated about the fruit in their folklore, spiritual books and poems. (Apples) for not less than 2000 years, cultivators have grown diverse range of apples. (a Modern Herb: Apple) There are in excess of 7,000 types of apples cultivated in the world. (Apple Facts, Nutritional Information and Recipes)

In the United States, around 2,500 diverse kinds are available. Each type of apple is developed for unique food uses. While some varieties of apples are utilized for cooking or eating, other types find use in making better cider or juice. Apples come in different color shades of red, green, or yellow. (a Modern Herb: Apple) a brand called Red Delicious is the most accepted in the United States. Every year Americans eat around 19.6 pounds of new apples and majority of all apples cultivated in the United States for fresh eating arrive from the fruit gardens in Washington State. In the United States, 50% of the apples grown are converted into apple sauce, apple juice or dehydrated apple products and the balance 50% are traded fresh. (Apple Facts, Nutritional Information and Recipes)

History of the apple tree

Although Apples attains fineness in cooler regions, it is a fruit of the temperate zones. It is a fruit of very old origin and in the Swiss lake-dwellings small apples have been located, which are totally burnt but yet revealing the seed-valves and the grain of the flesh. (a Modern Herb: Apple) the most primitive trees were sited near the modern city of Alma-Ata in Kazakhstan several thousands of years ago and these trees yielded sweet, tasty apples comparable to those we like nowadays. By the late 300's BC, the Greeks were growing many types of apples; the ancient Romans too cherished and cultivated the fruit. Researchers, at a Stone Age village in Switzerland, found burnt leftovers of apples. Apple seeds and trees were carried by the European settlers to the New World. Apples were being cultivated in New England from as early as 1630, as per the reports from the Massachusetts Bay Company. (the History of Apples)

John McIntosh discovered the McIntosh Apple, a very popular variety among the people around the world, in 1796 in Ontario, Canada. In myths of our past, apples have found a place. Following example illustrates this: in the Swiss story of William Tell, an archer is detained and then assured of his release if he can shoot an apple off his son's head with an arrow, and in the Bible, Adam and Eve are lured by apples in the Garden of Eden. Americans have a beloved story about an initial apple farmer named John Chapman, from Leominster, Massachusetts. Chapman, at present recognized by many as 'Johnny Appleseed' became popular in the 1800's when he disseminated apple seeds and trees to early settlers in the American states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Myths assert that Appleseed toured barefoot wearing old tattered clothes and a tin pot for a hat! Johnny Appleseed is rejoiced in American myths as an icon of the westward-moving growth of the European settlers. (the History of Apples) good number of countries of Europe and in the regions of Caucasus, Apple is found to be present in its raw condition; apple is also found to exist in the lowlands as far north as Drontheim in Norway. The natural forerunner of all the cultivated kinds of apple trees is the Crab-tree or Wild Apple and it is inhabitant of Britain. Crab-tree was the stockpile on which select types were implanted and then carried from Europe, mainly from France. Before the Norman Conquest, Apples of some kind were found to exist in large quantity and were possibly brought into Britain by the Romans. Pliny talked about twenty-two types and at present there are about 2,000 kinds grown. (a Modern Herb: Apple)

Old Saxon manuscripts contain many remarks on apples and cider. A separate chapter on Apple can be found in Bartholomeus Anglicus's Encyclopedia; this Encyclopedia was printed at Cologne about 1470 and was one of the original printed books containing botanical information. Bartholomeus says: 'Malus the Appyll tree is a tree yt bereth apples and is a grete tree in itself... It is more short than other trees of the wood wyth knottes and rinelyd Rynde. And makyth shadowe wythe thicke bowes and branches: and fayr with dyurs blossomes, and floures of swetnesse and Iykynge: with goode fruyte and noble. And is gracious in syght and in taste and vertuous in medecyne... some beryth sourysh fruyte and harde, and some ryght soure and some ryght swete, with a good savoure and mery.' (a Modern Herb: Apple)

The benefits of having Apples in your garden

One of the most basic and most normal reasons for liking of apples is the taste; whether cooked or uncooked, all children like apples. For all age groups and all circumstances, apple pies, apple puddings, apple dumplings are quite satisfactory. Malic acid and tartaric acids form the main nutritional value of apples. For people who are deskbound and who are prone to liver disruptions, these acids play a significant part in deactivating the acid products of gout and indigestion. There is some basis behind the reputable old verse 'An apple a day keeps the doctor away'. The acids of the Apple ensure digestion of the fruit itself as well as the digestion of other foods. Rich foods such as pork and goose were associated with applesauce due to the popular instinct long ago, and another example of natural preference accepted by science is the old English fancy for eating apple pie with cheese, an outdated taste these days. Similar to most fruit sugars, the sugar of a sweet apple is almost a predigested food and once taken will immediately pass onto the blood to give energy and warmness for the body. The stomach can easily deal with a ripe raw apple and the complete course of its digestion will be finished in eighty-five minutes. (a Modern Herb: Apple)

The apple juice without sugar will frequently lessen acidity of the stomach; it is converted into alkaline carbonates and thereby rectifies sour fermentation. Medical authority claims that unsweetened cider eliminates stone or calculus problem, which is proved in countries like Normandy, where cider is the main drink that no case of stone had been met with for the last forty years. Taking ripe juicy apples at bedtime every night can heal some of the serious forms of constipation. For this use sour apples are the most excellent. In this way, few cases have been treated. This system is found to be highly helpful for people with inclination to biliousness. In certain cases boiled apples will harmonize entirely well, while raw ones show disagreement. There is a primitive proverb: 'To eat an apple going to bed will make the doctor beg his bread.' The apple not only cleanses the teeth by its juices, but also is strong enough to involuntarily push back the gums so that the borders are relieved of deposits; thus apple acts as an outstanding dentifrice. An old Lincolnshire cure for sore eyes is the use of decayed apples as poultice and is still being used in some villages. (a Modern Herb: Apple)

It is a fact that regular use of apples will prolong life and improve life conditions. In the old Scandinavian legend, the Edda, Iduna gave apples kept in a box; to the gods to bring back their youth. Apple juice can kill bacillus of typhoid fever according to a French physician; thus he suggests suspicious drinking water to be blended with cider to cure typhoid fever. The bark and root of the apple, peach and plum can give glucoside in small crystals, which can stimulate artificial diabetes in animals; this can be used in curing it in human beings. A cream for the unevenness of the skin was made from apple pulp, swine's grease and rosewater during Gerard's days, to which is associated the original pomatum. For unceasing diarrhea, the astringent vejuice of the crab, rich in tannin, is useful. The bark may be used in decoction for irregular and bilious fevers. Horseradish soaked in cider is found to be useful in dropsy. For swelling of the eyes, sore throat in fevers and erysipelas etc. can be cured by local application of cooked apples. Boiled apples are used as laxatives, while uncooked ones are not always used so. (a Modern Herb: Apple)

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