apple

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omena A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates. (defdate)
c. 1378, (w), (w):

I prayed pieres to pulle adown an apple.

Not that I had any doubt before – I have so often heard Mr. Woodhouse recommend a baked apple.

Close by and under cover, I watched the juicing process. Apples were washed, then tipped, stalks and all, into the crusher and reduced to pulp.

In Persia there grows a deadly tree, whose Apples are Poison, and present death.

Otaheite … is remarkable for producing great quantities of that delicious fruit we called apples, which are found in none of the others, except Eimeo.

Hippomane mancinella. (Manchineel-tree.) Dr. Peysonnel relates that a soldier, who was a slave with the Turks, eat some of the apples of this tree, and was soon seized with a swelling and pain of the abdomen.

Him by fraud I have seduced / From his Creator; and, the more to encrease / Your wonder, with an apple ….

Woman ate the apple, and discovered sex, and lost all shame, and lift up her fig—leaf, and she must suffer the pains of hell. Monthly.

If the grafted portion of an Apple or other tree were examined after one hundred years, the old cut surfaces would still be present, for mature or ripened wood, being dead, never unites.

This allows a weak plant to benefit from the strong roots of another, or a vigorous tree (such as an apple) to be kept small by growing on 'dwarfing rootstock'.

Other fruit trees, like apples, need well-drained soil.