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by the fair hand of Eve. Said accident caused a remarkable pro- 

 tuberance on the anterior part of his throat. This peculiarity has 

 been transmitted, and inherited by all the sons and daughters of 

 the original proprietors of Eden. The Old Anatomists made use 

 of this curious traditi'cin, 'and named th'e prominence in question, 

 "■Fonnuin Adayni," or Adam's apple, and it bears that name to 

 the present day. 



Skeptics will probably doubt the above narration, but they v,'ill 

 .credit those ancient Crreel?-and Koman naturaiists who described 

 the apple-tree and its fruit with great^ aceuracy. Theophostus, 

 ■ Heroditus, and Columella, all make mention of the Apple-tree. 

 Pliny says, that the Greeks called them "Medica'" from the coun- 

 try Avheife they first originated. Pliny described them as a fruit 

 with a delicate, tender skin, easily pared off.- He says of the 

 crab*apples, or "wildings," that they are small and sharply sour, 

 for which peculiarity they receive many curses. Columella, a 

 , practical hiisbandman who lived and .wrote long before Pliny's 

 _time, not only describes the apple-tree but also the process of 

 £r-afting, and gives several different methods, which he saye, 

 were handed down from the "Olden time." 



Apple-trees were brought to this- country very early. In 1629, 

 bv the order of the, "Governor and company of Massachusetts 

 bay," in New England, apple seeds were brought /rom England 

 into the colonies; and Governor's island was granted to Governor 

 Winthrop in 1632 on condition that he should plant a vineyard, 

 and an orchard. The pilgrims also cultivated orchards, near 

 Plj^mouth Kock, soon after their arrival. Many of our best va- 

 rieties of apples originated here among us. The Baldwin origi- 

 nated in Wilmington, near Boston, more than one hundred years 

 ago, and for a, long time was called the "Butter apple," or the 

 "Woodpecker apple." P^ev. Wm. Blackstone planted the first 

 orchard in Rhode Island, in 1836. In this orchard originated 

 the "Yellow Swe'etin'g." The "Newtown Pippin came from a' seed- 



