The story about Apple

In Europe in 300 BC, M.P. Cato had recorded the varieties of apples. Later, the Romans began farming and grafting. /kloc-in the 0/8th century, J.B. Montessori and T.A. used natural hybridization to select seedlings and gradually popularized cultivation.

After European immigrants discovered the new continent of America, they introduced apples to America and cultivated many new varieties in America. Japan introduced apples from Europe and America during the Meiji Restoration. Since then, Oceania and Africa have also introduced apples. In the past hundred years, apples have been planted all over five continents.

The earliest Europeans had eaten apples and improved and selected them. Some varieties were seen as early as 2000 years ago. Before colonizing the United States, there were hundreds of known varieties in Europe.

With the wave of immigration in North America, apple seedlings spread all over the country, becoming itinerant messengers of local legends, which played an important role in the spread of apples. Among them, john chapman, nicknamed "Apple Guy", grows apples widely in Ohio and Indiana. Indians and hunters may also spread apples.

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The distribution of apples

China native apple varieties were widely planted in Hebei and Shandong before the Qing Dynasty. They are characterized by low yield, small fruit, thin skin and sweet taste, but they are not resistant to storage and easy to be damaged, so they are expensive. In the Qing Dynasty, the Beijing flag used them as tribute fruits.

In the late Qing Dynasty, Americans introduced western apples to Yantai, Shandong and other places. After the Russo-Japanese War, Japan also established an agricultural experimental base in Xiong Yue, Guandong County, introducing western apples and improving them through hybridization.

Yantai and Dalian have thus become famous apple producing areas. After the Republic of China, the western varieties of apples gradually occupied the main position in the China market, while the local varieties of apples in China were gradually eliminated by fruit farmers, and the planting scope was shrinking. Finally, only a few apples were preserved in Huailai, Hebei Province, but these fruit trees also became extinct in China around1970s.

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