Review of the book “The Art of Taming Fruit”

For Central Europe, the most important role was played by the apple. It is a cross-product of wild apples from Central Asia, and modern genetic methods classify all apples grown today Malos Pomela to me. Meanwhile, the so-called refinement by connecting the ‘bud veins’ to the ‘base’ had reached the highest level of perfection. The diversity of varieties gave rise to a new branch of applied botany, botany. It was often pastors, pharmacists, and teachers who tried to orchestrate this huge diversity. Strange things also appeared. Reverend J.C. Jacob Oberdijk (1794-1880) succeeded in grafting 300 varieties on a single apple tree. Reverend Corbinian Aigner (1885-1966) also shaped the area: when imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp in 1941, he had to work at a “Research Institute for Aromatic Plants”. He successfully bred four varieties of apples (KZ-1 to KZ-4), with the KZ-3 cultivar proving successful. He managed to smuggle seedlings and fled to a monastery where he hid. The KZ-3 became a successful economic and analytical apple and is now known as the Corbinian apple.

The beautiful illustrations in the book show how powerful orchards are often in inspiring famous artists such as Cézanne, Renoir, Pissarro, or Van Gogh. Renoir was particularly fond of garden views, and even had a small garden house built in an olive grove. The Egyptians created frescoes, and the Romans mainly from mosaics.

According to the author, the current loss of varieties of all important fruits is unfortunate and sometimes disastrous. Of the 17,000 varieties of apples in the United States, only 4,000 remain, with 15 producing 90 percent of the crop, most notably the “Golden Delicious.” On the other hand, the revival of quince cultivation in our country is satisfactory. There is hope also elsewhere: in the Ivory Coast and the Indian Ocean, fruit bats have been found to help repopulate cleared areas: they eat a variety of fruits, which remain in the digestive tract for up to nine hours while the animals travel. Long Distances. After providing them with fertilizer, the seeds have a good start. In this way, even new ecosystems can emerge.