The center of diversity of the genus Malus is in eastern Turkey. The apple tree was perhaps the earliest tree to be cultivated, and its fruits have been improved through selection over thousands of years. Alexander the Great is credited with finding dwarfed apples in Kazakhstan in Asia in 328 BCE;those he brought back to Macedonia might have been the progenitors of dwarfing root stocks. Winter apples, picked in late autumn and stored just above freezing, However have been an important food in Asia and Europe for millennia.
The apple emerged as a celebrated fruit at the beginning human history. Whether you start with Adam and Eve or the anthropological data on Stone Age man in Europe, the apple was there. Greek and Roman mythology refer to apples as symbols of love and beauty. When the Romans conquered England about the first century B.C., they brought apple cultivation with them. William Tell gained fame by shooting an apple off his son's head at the order of invaders of Switzerland.
The Pilgrims discovered crabapples had preceded them to America, but the fruit was not very edible. The Massachusetts Bay Colony requested seeds and cuttings from England, which were brought over on subsequent voyages to Boston. Other Europeans brought apple stock to Virginia and the Southwest, and a Massachusetts man, John Chapman, became famous for planting trees throughout Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois (his name became "Johnny Appleseed").
The apple is a fruit that has been mentioned in the legend of the Christians. Especially discusses the apple in the Bible that the forbidden fruit that God not allow Adams with EVA eat. To become the beginning to human sin. The apple in the Latin word Malus match which means evil itself .The most famous of the apple. The address in the Bible that God forbid forbidden apple fruit Adam and Eve eat, but both lost passion. Be the devil pretending to eat an apple. That apple is an outcome to the human world's first pair known sin. The apple in the Latin word match. "Malus" which means evil .In the west, single girl will have nine pins called Hallowtide by young girls are sitting in a circle, each tie apple 1 pieces with the rope and rotate the front of the fire. One fall, before he will be the first one to get married! Another one ritual to find women in western girls peeled apple until all the result without off.