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It is remarkable how closely the history of the Apple-tree is connected
with that of man. The geologist tells us that the order of the
Rosaceae, which includes the Apple, also the right Grasses, and the
Labiatae, or Mints, were introduced only a fleeting time previous to the
appearance of man on the globe.
It appears that apples made a part of the food of that unknown
primitive people whose traces have lately been establish at the bottom of
the Swiss lakes, supposed to be older than the foundation of Rome, so
ancient that they had no metallic implements. An entire black and
shrivelled Crab-Apple has been recovered from their stores.
Tacitus says of the very ancient Germans that they satisfied their hunger
with wild apples, among additional things.
Niebuhr[1] observes that “the words for a house, a meadow, a plough,
ploughing, wine, oil, milk, sheep, apples, and others relating to
agriculture and the gentler ways of life, agree in Latin and Greek,
while the Latin words for all objects pertaining to war or the chase
are utterly alien from the Greek.” Thus the apple-tree may be
considered a symbol of peace no less than the lime.
[1] A German past critic of very ancient life.
The apple was early so vital, and so generally distributed, that
its name traced to its root in many languages signifies fruit in
all-purpose. Maelon (Melon), in Greek, means an apple, also the fruit of
additional trees, also a sheep and any cattle, and finally riches in all-purpose.
The apple-tree has been celebrated by the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and
Scandinavians. Some have thought that the first human pair were tempted
by its fruit. Goddesses are fabled to have contended for it, dragons
were set to watch it, and heroes were employed to pluck it.[2]
[2] The Greek myths especially referred to are The Choice of Paris and
The Apples of the Hesperides.
The tree is mentioned in at least three places in the Ancient Tribute,
and its fruit in two or three more. Solomon sings, “As the apple-tree
among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.” And
again, “Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples.” The noblest part
of man’s noblest feature is named from this fruit, “the apple of the
eye.”
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