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ipples keep their just-picked reshness up to a year. Ever iince Eve persuaded ^dam tqi try one, apples have >een a worldwide favorite. Europe's Stone-Age men warded them in caves. Ancient jRomans, wrote Pliny he Elder, munched on at least !2 different Varieties. By the ime Columbus sailed to America, the apple was the nost important cultivated ruit in central and northern Europe. A hardy tree, the apple was ible to withstand extremes of lemperature. The fruit kept veil, an important considera:ion before refreigeration. The first settlers to the 'lew World brought apples. Soon Indian tribes were planting orchards. John Chapman Jarned a new name as he roamed about Ohio and Indiana in the early 19th century, leaching the gospel and planting apples. He became known ind celebrated as Johnny \ppleseedt.
Seeds Unreliable Apple trees are propagated ay grafting, since seeds rare ly reproduce true to the parant. Occasionally, however, a seedling is found with highly desirable characteristics. John McIntosh planted an archard in 1796 in Canada’s
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