Tacitus says of the ancient Germans, that they satisfied their hunger with wild apples ( agrestia poma) among other things. An entire black and shriveled Crab-Apple has been recovered from their stores. It appears that apples made a part of the food of that unknown primitive people whose traces have lately been found at the bottom of the Swiss lakes, supposed to be older than the foundation of Rome, so old that they had no metallic implements. The geologist tells us that the order of the Rosace, which includes the Apple, also the true Grasses, and the Labiat, or Mints, were introduced only a short time previous to the appearance of man on the globe.
IT is remarkable how closely the history of the apple-tree is connected with that of man. Click here to go to part two or part three.) (The online version of this article appears in three parts.
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