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"McIntosh" on a tree McIntosh Red apple as bought John McIntosh (August 15, 1777 – c. 1845) was a Scottish-Canadian farmer and fruit breeder, credited with discovering the McIntosh Red apple. Through the apple, his surname is the eponym of the Macintosh (or Mac) computers and operating systems by Apple Inc.
Published in 1845, he worked with his brother to write The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. [1] After Andrew's death in 1852, Downing edited and added new material and reissued The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. [2] Each new edition greatly enlarged the book and it was the best publication of the kind in the United States. [3]
A: Female fly B: Eggs removed from apple C: Egg punctures in skin of apple D: Eggs in normal position in apple E: Larva, nearly fully grown F: Pupae. Eggs are fusiform and pearly white when laid in fruit, but after a short period of time in the fruit, they turn a cream color. Developing larvae can be clearly seen within the translucent eggs. [1]
It gradually spread across North America and to South America and was the most important crop of Native Americans at the time of European exploration. [119] Other Mesoamerican crops include hundreds of varieties of locally domesticated squash and beans , while cocoa , also domesticated in the region, was a major crop. [ 72 ]
Johnny Appleseed (born John Chapman; September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845) was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds (as opposed to trees grown with grafting [1]) to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Ontario, as well as the northern counties of West Virginia.
A Devon woman has discovered what she claims to be a "one-in-a-billion" egg due to its unusual round shape. Alison Greene, an egg handler on Fenton Farm, near the Somerset border, identified the ...
A seventh apple, Crimson Gold, was introduced in the 1947 catalog. [36] The 1970 catalog carried only five varieties of Etter's apples: Alaska, Etter's Gold, Jonwin, Pink Pearl, and Wickson. A flyer with "Distinctive New Recipes...for the Apples of Albert Etter" [37] was provided in the 1945 catalog. Recipes were by Robert Stoney Mayock who was ...
A map may prove that Marco Polo discovered America more than two centuries before Christopher Columbus. A sheepskin map, believed to be a copy of the 13th century Italian explorer's, may indicate ...