Ontario Fruit Explorers

["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hi Biz,

Here is something for your records.  I wonder if a linguist could trace  
the root word "Api" of antiquity, to the modern word "apple"....

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LADY APPLE - This exquisitely beautiful little dessert apple delights the  
eye as much as the palate. Small flattish in shape, its shiny skin ranges  
from creamy yellow in the shade to a deep glossy crimson on the side next  
to the sun. Its flesh is tender, white, crisp, very juicy, refreshing and  
slightly perfumed with the best of the flavor in the skin, which should  
always be eaten. As Jean de la Quintinye said, "it may be eaten greedily  
at a chop with its coat all on." Known in Europe as "Api" or "Pomme  
d'Apis," the Lady Apple is of great antiquity, which some writers trace  
back to Appius Claudius the Roman censor who constructed the Appian Way.  
It was grown in the gardens of Louis XIII at Orleans in 1628 and was a  
favorite France dessert apple " which the ladies of France carry in their  
pockets by reason they yield no unpleasant scent." From the earliest days  
in America it has always been a fancy apple used not only for dessert at  
Christmas time, but also, because of its striking red and yellow skin, for  
Della Robia wreaths and garlands of fruit. It makes a fine dwarf tree  
which bears heavily. A good keeper- late October.
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