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Show The common apple appears in the mythology, traditions, history his-tory and archeology of ' the most ancient nations. ' it is mentioned in the Bible, and in .the earliest annals of China Egypt and Babylon. Man started early on the job of improving the apples he, found growing wild in western Asia and temperate Europe thousands of years ago. It is said that Cato, in the third century cen-tury B.C. knew seven different ' apple varieties. Historians say that Pliny, in the first century A.D., knew 36 different kinds of apples. .. - TL x |