Monday, September 15, 2014

What is it about the 19th century…

September 15, 2014 Introduction As the small family orchard became unprofitable, and Prohibition made cider apples taboo, people stopped propagating the old varieties. Of those thousands of nineteenth-century varieties, a mere six (Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Gala, Fuji, Granny Smith, McIntosh) came to dominate the late-twentieth-century market. All Excerpts From Jacobsen, Rowan. “Apples of Uncommon Character.” Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2014. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

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