The sun., 1916-12-28
ADAMS APPLE A CITRUS.
And Anyway the Term Apple Il Ap'
piled to All Kinds Of Fruit.

To THE EDITOR or THE SuN-Sir: I
have waited several days for some one
to send you an answer to the important
questions Was the forbidden fruit an
apple? why do folks call II an apple?
Has no word on this subject come to
you from DR.. vizetelly, who usually
rushcs into type with nswer to such
puzzles from his photographic and lexi.
logic stores?
Does not Gotham. for generations the
proverbial city OF wise men and now
the FIRST city in the world for Talmudic
lore. sport or support one who will quote
from Mishmas or INTERPRETATIONS
what Rambam or Others said of Ewes
apple?
: Turn We then to the Century Diction-
airy tnow In n volume on famous In
dia paper) and IN under the word zap
ple." definition 3. the following:
3 A name popularity given to various
fruits or trees having little or nothing In
common with the apple. Among them
are: Adams apple 1.-THE lime. a variety OF
Citrus medica, and the plantain.s Musa
paradisiaca); the allieator-apple Anona
palustris: the balsam-apple. Momordica
balsamina: the wild balsam-apple. Micram-
pelis lobata: the beef or bull-apple. side
roxylon rugosum: the bitter apple or colo
cynth. Ci,rullus colocynthis; the apple Of
Cain. Arbutus unedo: the cedarlapp,e, an
excrescence upon the Juniper caused by q
fungus tGymnosporangium macropus): tho
cus,ard-appie. species OF Anona. especially.
In the West Indies. A. reticuiata, and. in
the East indies, A. squamosa; the devils
or mandrake apple. MandragorA o~6ncina-
rum; the egg-apple. or Jews or mad APP
pie. Solanum esculentum; the elephant or
wood-apple. Feronia e%lephantum: the
golden apple of Bengal. Belou marmelos:
the kangaroo-apple. Soianum iac!niatum 4:
the Kei apple. Alberta cafYra: the love-
apple or tomato. Lycopersicon lycopersi-
cum; the mammee-apple. Mammeo ameri-
cana: the May or Indian apple. Podophyi-
lum peltatum; the monkey ppl Clusia
6ava; the Otaheite apple. SpondIas duicis
the apple OF Peru. Physalodes physaiodes.
the Persian apple IAN early name for the
peach); the pineapple. Ananas ansnas: the
pond -apple, Anona globra: the prairie
apple, the root OF Psoraiea esculents: the
rose-apple. Caryophyilus jambos ,Eugenia
Jambos OF Linneus); the seven yer apple.
Genipa c~lusiTfolia; the star-apple. Chryso-
phyl'um c~ainito: the sugar-apple. Anona
reticuiata: the thorn-apple. Da,ura stra-
monium: SC. The wild apples OF Queens
land are the fruit OF a species of Ran
cooria.
Or In the equally India paper) En-
~cyclopedia Britannica, at the end OF its
article Apple" Volume H.. page 224.
second column:
Many exotic fruits, having nothing IN
common with the apple. are known by that
name. e. e., the Balsam apple. Momordica
balsamina, the custari apple. "a. W.
A-A,a r.gr,futa. ska n81 azpls SAia~p,,
esculentum: the rose apple. various species
of Eugenia; the pineapple "a. W. Ananas
sativus: the star apple, C~hrysophyilum
%cainito: and the apples Of sodom. Soda
mum sodometum, "a. r, RI
4 New England poet. I think. long
ago-ccrtainly before the acquisition Of
Hawaii and Porto Rico or the devel-
opment Of citrus groves in Florida or
California, wrote lines like these in
praise of these United States:
lie, other lands e~xulting CLEAN
The cluster from the vine,
The orange from it's glossy green
The apple from the pine
and, I suppose, meant pineapple by the
last line,
But I can't ind this note in the die
tionaries, though am sure il is true;
"Apple In English, like pomme In
French ,pomme de tcrre and pomme
d'amour. for eXample) and pomum in
Latin. is used loosely OF any fruit. The
golden apples OF the Hesperldes may
have been range and so too the Bib
Heal apples OF gold in pictures OF silver
The same phenomenon in linguistic us
age may be seen In beach plum which
10 nnf n MUM and nlsO In tho mar n