A is for Apples

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. -Old English proverb

To eat an apple without rubbing it first is to challenge the Devil -Old English proverb


The apple is a favorite way to finding your future husband: Give one twist of the stem for each letter of the alphabet and when ever it breaks will be the first initial of your one true love.
Let all unselfish spirits heed
The story of Johnny Appleseed.
He had another and prouder name
In far New England, whence he came,
But by this title, and this alone,
Was the kindly wanderer loved and known.

- Elizabeth Akers Allen

Johnny Appleseed

The legend of J0hnny Appleseed is really based on facts. John Chapman was an eccentric and deeply religious man who roamed the American frontier planting apple trees along the way. He preferred to use the nickname Johnny Appleseed. He is also known to some as the "American Saint Francis."

Chapman was born in 1774 and rounded up in Pennsylvania in 1797 or abouts. And for forty-eight years Johnny traveled the frontier as a brearded, barefoot, hermit dressed in rags with a sack of apple seeds slung over his shoulder.


Did you know that a single apple tree can grow to be 40 feet high and live for more than 100 years?

Well, now you do.

There are over 7,500 different types of apples; while the United States of America is the largest producer of them.

Some types as Delicious which are sweet in favorful; Golden Delicious which makes great pies and McIntosh which makes into really good applesauce.