302 THE APPLE. 



Improved varieties of tlie Apple appear to have 

 been in cultivation from a very remote period. 

 To the Greeks and Romans it was well known. 



BLOSSOM OF THE APPLE-TREE. 



Mention of it occurs also in the Septuagint^ as 

 w^ell as in the authorized version of the Holy 

 Bible ; but the fruit there alluded to is now 

 thought, and with great propriety, to be the 



