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This apple tree at the Botanic Gardens in Cambridge is a descendant of a tree which grew in Isaac Newton's garden at Woolsthorpe Manor. Erroneously photographed with an apple of the "Red Delicious" variety. The Flower of Kent is a green cultivar of cooking apple. It is pear-shaped, mealy, and sub-acid, and of generally poor quality by today's ...
Old Apple Tree Park and orchard from the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site area map. The Old Apple Tree was an apple tree in Vancouver, Washington, United States, purported to be the oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest. Genetic testing determined that the apples produced are unique and distantly related to the 500-year-old French ...
Today the Elgin valley is renowned for its apple and pear orchards, its greenhouse cut flowers, its rose growing, and, increasingly, for the production of high quality, cool climate wines. Over 40 percent of South Africa’s apple production is exported, [ 3 ] and the Elgin Valley produces about 60 percent of the total annual apple crop of ...
Applecrest Farm Orchards (also known as Applecrest Orchards or simply Applecrest) is a year-round apple orchard in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.It is considered the oldest and largest apple orchard in the state of New Hampshire [1] and the oldest continuously operated apple orchard in the United States, [citation needed] having opened in 1913.
Give me a steaming cup of apple cider, a warm slice of apple pie a la mode, or just a fresh fall apple picked right off the tree, and I'm a happy camper - just like this sweet-toothed Mastador!
Piper Orchard, the oldest orchard in Seattle, is located in Carkeek Park and features primarily heirloom apple trees. It was established in the late 19th century by A. W. Piper, a local confectioner and member of the Seattle City Council, following the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. The orchard was a key part of the Piper family's homestead, which ...
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A folktale from Somerset reflecting this custom tells of the Apple Tree Man, the spirit of the oldest apple tree in an orchard, and in whom the fertility of the orchard is thought to reside. In the tale a man offers his last mug of mulled cider to the trees in his orchard and is rewarded by the Apple Tree Man who reveals to him the location of ...