the latest issue of the CRFG (California Rare Fruits Growers)
magazine features the 1st of a 3 part article on the history of
the apple. The same article reports that wild apples of Asia and
Europe were largely inedible. It seems that modern apples
are very much the result of thousand of years of plant breeding
and cultivar selection.

"Apples Around the World"
Part I: The History of the Apple"
Lenette Horton,
pp. 13, 25.

Fruit Gardener, May & June 205, vol 37, #3,
published by CRFG, Fullerton, California.

CRGF is a not-for-profit organization: http://www.crfg.org

Tom Billings