They have taken their rightful place in the pleasure gardens of the wealthy throughout the world in spite of the almost instinctive knowledge that eating them may lead one to a life of chaos and destruction. Previously isolated gene pools from some of the 25 distinctly different species of apples found throughout the world are now brought in contact with each other and gene transfer among apple species occurs. Agriculturalists are charmed. Naturalists are alarmed. Agriculturalists are charmed.
Naturalists are alarmed.
Hittite Law Codes specify a three shekel penalty for anyone allowing a fire to destroy an apple orchard. He then proceeds to coin a new Greek word from the Persian pairidaeza , or walled garden, later becoming the Latin paradisus , and finally the English paradise. Agriculturalists are charmed, naturalists are alarmed. Horace notes that Italy has nearly become one big fruit orchard and the perfect meal begins with eggs and ends with apples. Apples moved west with the rise of the Roman empire as the Romans adopted the apples and orchard skills of the Greeks and Persians before them.