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Apple Magic By Margaret Hillart

In every single apple lies A truly magical surprise. Instead of slicing down,

slice through And watch the star

appear for you!



is for apple


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Can you draw an apple?



Color 10 apples red:


Color the picture and make the apples red – How many are there?


Count by 5’s

5 10 __ 20 25

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55 60 __ 70 __

80 __ 90 95 ___


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9. 10.

Dot-to-dot – count out loud


Long before apples were cultivated, it is believed they grew wild in Central Asia

and China, as well as in Southwest Asia, where biblical historians place the

Garden of Eden. The Stone Age peoples of Europe cultivated apple trees. In

3000 B.C., the ancient Lake Dwellers of northern Italy and Switzerland also grew

apples. The Greeks and Romans both cultivated apples. When the Romans

conquered England (first century B.C.) they brought the art of apple cultivation

with them.

During the Age of Exploration, the apple was the most important cultivated

fruit. The Spaniards brought apples to Mexico and South America. The Pilgrims

of Massachusetts Bay Colony planted apple seeds *in 1629. Pioneers brought

apple trees west. Indians planted trees from seeds they had received at white

settlements. John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, started many

small orchards throughout Ohio and Indiana in the early 1800s. Today, the

annual apple crop grown in 35 U.S. states averages over 200 million bushels.

Mythology used apples as a symbol of love and beauty. In Greek mythology,

Atlanta refused to marry unless a suitor could defeat her in a running race. One

suitor, Milanion, accomplished this goal by dropping 3 golden apples (gifts of

Venus, the Goddess of Love) during the race. Atlanta stopped to pick them up,

lost the race, and became his wife.

In another Greek myth, Eris, the Goddess of Discord, was enraged because she

had not been invited to the wedding of a fellow god and goddess. She tossed

among the guests a golden apple with the inscription, "For the fairest." Three

goddesses felt they were worthy. In order to put an end to the squabbling,

Paris, a mortal, was called upon to judge the fairest. He chose Aphrodite. Hera

and Athena, the rejected goddesses, were furious and caused great devastation

to Paris and his family. According to this legend, the clamor eventually led to

the Trojan War.

In Teutonic mythology, Bragi was distinguished for his nobility and wisdom. He

married Idun, who was the goddess of eternal youth and the guardian of the

"golden apples." Her magic prevented the gods from aging.

To the Iroquois Indians, the apple tree is the central tree of heaven.

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The crabapple is the only apple native to North America.

Apples come in all shades of reds, greens, and yellows.

Apple blossom is the state flower of Michigan.

2,500 varieties of apples are grown in the United States.

7,500 varieties of apples are grown throughout the world.

Apples are grown in all 50 states.

The pilgrims planted the first United States apple trees in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

The science of apple growing is called pomology.

Apple trees take four to five years to produce their first fruit.

Apples were the favorite fruit of ancient Greeks and Romans.

Apples are a member of the rose family.

The largest apple picked weighed three pounds.

Charred apples have been found in prehistoric dwellings in Switzerland.

Some apple trees will grow over 40 feet high and live over 100 years.

It takes the energy from 50 leaves to produce one apple.

Apples are the second most valuable fruit grown in the United States. Oranges are first.

In colonial time, apples were called winter banana or melt-in-the-mouth.

Newton Pippin apples were the first apples exported from America in 1768, some were sent to

Benjamin Franklin in London.

One of George Washington's hobbies was pruning his apple trees.

A peck of apples weight 10.5 pounds.

A bushel of apples weights about 42 pounds and will yield 20-24 quarts of applesauce.

Archeologists have found evidence that humans have been enjoying apples since at least 6500 B.C.

It takes about 36 apples to create one gallon of apple cider.

Apple

Facts


"Johnny Appleseed 1" by H. S. Knapp Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Johnny Appleseed was born John Chapman

It has been said that John, when he was eighteen years old,

began his journey to the west, with his eleven year old brother,

Nathaniel. It was 1972, and they lived a nomadic life – traveling

across the country together. In 1805, the younger sibling stayed

back with their father to help on the farm and Johnny journeyed

on, without him.

A man named Mr. Crawford, owned apple orchards, and Johnny

went to work for him as an apprentice.

There are stories of Johnny Appleseed practicing his nurseryman

craft in the Wilkes-Barre area and of picking seeds from the

pomace at Potomac cider mills in the late 1790s. Another story

has Chapman living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Grant's Hill in

1794 at the time of the Whiskey Rebellion.

The popular stories are of Johnny Appleseed spreading apple seeds randomly, everywhere he went. In

truth, he planted nurseries rather than orchards. He would build fences around them to protect them,

and he left the nurseries in the care of neighbors. Johnny returned every year or two to check in and

tend to the nursery.

His first nursery was planted on the bank of Brokenstraw Creek, near Warren, Pennsylvania. Next, he

seems to have moved to set up nurseries which were located in the Mohican area of north-central

Ohio.

In some periods of the settlement of the Midwest, settlers were required by law to plant orchards of

apples and pears in order to uphold the right to the claimed land. So Johnny Appleseed planted

orchards that made for popular real estate on the frontier.

Apples which are grown from seed are rarely sweet or tasty. The apple orchards with sour apples were

popular among the settlers because apples were mainly needed for producing hard cider and apple

jack.

Johnny Appleseed is remembered in American popular culture by his traveling song or Swedenborgian

hymn ("The Lord is good to me..."), which has been sung before meals in many American households.

"Oooooh, the Lord is good to me, and so I thank the Lord, for giving me the things I need, the sun and

the rain and the appleseed. The Lord is good to me. Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen."

Taken from: Wikipedia/Johnny Appleseed

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johnny_Appleseed_1.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Johnny_Appleseed_1.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed

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