{"id":8683,"date":"2013-04-28T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8683"},"modified":"2013-04-28T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T16:03:39","slug":"the-history-of-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-history-of-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"The History Of Apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/042813_1559_TheHistoryO1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rowan Jacobsen took a look at the history of the apple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each apple tree is different. The seeds that turn into a tree are a combination of the father&#8217;s and mother&#8217;s genes, and produce a brand new type of apple. Most aren&#8217;t that great.<\/li>\n<li>But when a new tree does produce good apples, the only way to get more of that type of apple is by cloning it through a graft of one of its shoots.<\/li>\n<li>Therefore every Granny Smith apple is produced from a direct clone of a tree that first grew in 1868.<\/li>\n<li>America used to have thousands of strains of apples each unique in its own way, but the rise of industrialized farming led to most people settling on just a few different types of apples.<\/li>\n<li>America&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prohibition_in_the_United_States\">prohibition<\/a> is also partly to blame for the decline in diversity of apples. Some of them made excellent ciders but died out when alcohol was banned.<\/li>\n<li>Nowadays new strains of apples are protected by intellectual property rights that restrict how they can be grown, and require a licensing fee for each apple that is produced.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the man who&#8217;s trying to identify, catalogue, and revive America&#8217;s various apples, what different apples such as Wolf River and Harrison looked like, and what the hunt for an apple is like over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2013\/04\/heritage-apples-john-bunker-maine?slide=6\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2013\/04\/heritage-apples-john-bunker-maine?slide=6\">Mother Jones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan Jacobsen took a look at the history of the apple: Each apple tree is different. The seeds that turn into a tree are a combination of the father&#8217;s and mother&#8217;s genes, and produce a brand new type of apple. Most aren&#8217;t that great. But when a new tree does produce good apples, the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/042813_1559_TheHistoryO1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8685,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions\/8685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}