FRUIT WHOLESALE
Fruit – Vegetable – Tropical Fruits
Fruit – Vegetable – Tropical Fruits
The apple is the most well-known and most important kind of fruit with us. There is no fruit with a greater variety of kinds and so outstanding storage characteristics.
In former times the apple trees grew in the forest between different broad-leafed trees. The fruits of this crab- or forest-apple were only as large as a walnut and very sour in taste. Crab apples also were in Asia. One assumes our current apple to be a cross-breeding between asiatic and european crob apples.
Already in the year 1450 in the Orient and in Egypt fruit trees were cultivated. In Persia whole country lanes were lined with fruit trees. The famous antique captain Alexander the Great, who fought against Persia confederated with the Greeks, brought back different fruit varieties from his campaigns too. Among them also the apple. From Greece the apple arrived to Italy together with other fruit varieties. The Romans again carried the tasty fruit forward on their campaigns to France and Germany, thus soon the first apple trees were to be found also with us.
From the sinful apple, as reported on the Christian religions, the apple little by little developed as a symbol of power. Emperors and kings held in their hand beside the golden sceptre a gold-plated “orb”; as symbol for the globe. One golden apple kept until today: On the pinnacle of the St. Stephan’s Cathedral. When the Turks waged war against Vienna in 1683 it was their goal “to conquer the golden apple”.
Arlet, Boskoop, Braeburn, Cox Orange, Elstar, Fuji, Gala, Gloster, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Idared, Jonagold, Crown Prince Rudolf, Pink Lady, Red Delicious, Royal Gala, Rubens, Rubinette, Topaz.