APPLES HAVE TRAVELED FAR 
when they stopped again, they planted them. They 
might wait a hundred or a thousand years and move on 
again. Again they would select the best of the apple seed 
to take with them. Finally they reached the Atlantic, 
spread out, and overran Europe. Apple trees likewise, 
grandchildren of the flowering forests of the Caucasus, 
found homes throughout the colder countries of that 
continent. 
Finally Europeans crossed the Atlantic and planted 
colonies. Wherever they went, this apple that had been 
companion of the race in its wanderings soon found a 
place and began to contribute to the comfort of its spon¬ 
sors. It has a home in all vigorous climates to which 
Aryans have gone. They have pushed it to the west 
until now it is becoming popular in Japan where, a little 
while ago, it was unknown. It has not as yet much hold 
in China. In another generation, however, it is probable 
that it will have pushed on to the west until it has come 
back to the Caucasus, much improved by its trip around 
the world. 
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