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Apple History.

During the reign of Henry VIII. j apples were brought from Flanders, | and distributed by that monarch's ] fruiterer, Harris, in Kent, thus giving j that county a supremacy in apple cul- j ture, especially as regards size and ; colour. Holland and the whole of the j Low Countries, contributed apples and i other fruits to the enrichment of our j gardens and orchards. During the ; Commonwealth the number of apples ; known in England had vastly increased, and the dwarfing system of growing apples was introduced into Britain by William 111, from Albeit, the Api or l.adv Appi* ''■ ; ! ? to have been first discovered a wiHi ng in the forest of Api in Hriuat'y, was not known in England tsa lac dose of the seventeenth century. .-•> tnat the French equally with tn«- hng.jsh ignore everything of Koman ..rigi-.alitv in apples. But the very na>r,< api if the C«tltic word from which the English obtained apple, and has a strange significance ani reference to the Api brought to Rome by Appius C iaudus. At the clow of the sever.tt < nth century we had Golden Reinetie, (nudon Russet, Juneating. Royal K ;ss*-t. and Summer Pearman. also vamu< s di?tingushed by local ra:M .«*. .";<-h as Devonshire Quarr_". ".< a. K« _ l'ij'pin, London Pippi:.. = l':aa!n m Yorkshire, and 0.-ii:. ;r .-rot:ar.':. At the same time we had li.ar.cr.''. and in IT?*") B«>r.«-ifr:!Vr many. In 176> N"twt...-,v:: f':aa:a. American apple par v; -; cultivated, Duchess of ( i.a a: si: a:. Emperor Alexander : l aa l; a a: a Red Astrachan from Sv.a •. a Gravenstein came from < e.aaaaay, ara: English grown fruit was nrst c aadauai in 1819. "Journal of H'.ria-u'.ture.

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King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 131, 15 February 1909, Page 3

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Apple History. King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 131, 15 February 1909, Page 3

Apple History. King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 131, 15 February 1909, Page 3

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