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Fictional or not, the idea of a deeply moral and fervently nationalistic Tell expertly shooting an apple hardened the resolve of the Swiss to resist domination throughout the succeeding centuries. Not satisfied with apple tales, legends and symbols, many people in the Middle Ages began searching for the Garden of Eden and its infamous apple tree. They believed that the garden had not been destroyed but had survived the Flood and could be found on some remote hilltop somewhere in the world. Once explorers started roaming the globe, the idea floundered, replaced by the notion that after the Fall the contents of Eden had been scattered to the corners of the globe.
1890. Exactly where the apple came from had long been a matter of contention and discussion among people who study plant origins. Vavilov, imprisoned by Joseph Stalin in 1940 for his work in genetics during the Lysenko Affair, died in a Leningrad prison in 1943. Only after the fall of communism in Russia did Vavilov’s theory, made more than half a century earlier, become widely recognized. As Vavilov predicted, it’s now believed that all of the apples known today are direct descendents of the wild apples that evolved in Kazakhstan.
This admiration soon spread throughout the Greek world. Alexander brought gardeners skilled in grafting from the Tigris basin to Greece to assist in the production of apples. Apples soon appeared on Greek tables, appearing in the final course of cakes and fruits served at grand banquets. Particular varieties of apples were highly sought after and the choicest apples carefully cultivated. In the first century CE, the Greek historian Plutarch called attention to the affection Greeks had for the apple: No other fruit unites the fine qualities of all fruits as does the apple.