. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. 101 J BETTER FRUIT the world. In the .stories of the Arabs, in the stories of the Persians, the apple always appeared as a life-bringing, as a health-giving medium; even in the old poems and songs of the Scandina- vians of Northern Europe the apple appears in the same light. It was by constantly partaking of the inde- structible apple of Idun that the (lods in Valhalla retained their innnorlality. In historic times the crabapple, so called on account of its sour, biting taste, like the nip of a crab, was found all over Europe. It was first brf)ught to Ameri
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. 101 J BETTER FRUIT the world. In the .stories of the Arabs, in the stories of the Persians, the apple always appeared as a life-bringing, as a health-giving medium; even in the old poems and songs of the Scandina- vians of Northern Europe the apple appears in the same light. It was by constantly partaking of the inde- structible apple of Idun that the (lods in Valhalla retained their innnorlality. In historic times the crabapple, so called on account of its sour, biting taste, like the nip of a crab, was found all over Europe. It was first brf)ught to America, as 1 have told you, but the real origin as far as tlie historians can discover was exactly where the Bible puts it, that is to sa\. the first apple frees were ])rohal)ly found somewhere in that district back of Palestine and .\sia Minor, in a way toward Messopotamia, where the Paradise of the Bible, as you remember, was lo- cated. Thence the\ were slowly spread over Europe, being taken out first, of course, by the Pelasgians, Greeks and Bomans and by them extended through 1-urope. The Romans first brought the cultivated apple to Britain. .Still the typical English apple has a French name, and therefoi'e must have been brought in by the Normans after their invasion. The English "pippin" comes from an old French word, pepin, which means a seedling. From England the Puritan forefathers of New England brought their favorite fruit to these shores, and thence the apple steadily traveled west. It is very interesting to remember that the birthi)lace of the apple tree is also the birthplace of the Caucasian race, and thai wherever the while man has moved west on his trip around the world, to Greece, to Rome, to Northern Europe, to I'ngland, to the I'nited States, he carried the apple tree with him. The apple tree, in its march through civilization, typifies the ad- vance of the white race, its original friends in its native home. Once in America, it crossed the Alle
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