...William Kerrigan [email protected] The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture . By Amanda L. Van Lanen . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2022 . 296 pp., $34.95 , hardcover, ISBN 9780806190662 . Copyright © 2024...

...John Henris Abstract The unique nature of commercial apple culture in the Spearfish Valley of the Black Hills of western South Dakota between 1882 and 1914 adds regional depth to the larger historical narratives of irrigated industrial orchard production in the Intermountain West and Pacific Coast...

...DAVID H. DIAMOND Abstract Before the Revolution, colonial American consumers reconstituted the English apple orchard. Unremarkable random seedling apples and "high" flavored English cider fruits were devalued. Late colonial consumers selected a range of sweeter, more versatile apples for fresh use...

...Johanna Christensen; Don Garden; Ruth Beilin Abstract In order to understand the social and ecological history of apple growing, we undertook historical research, drawing upon in-depth interviews with apple growers to explore local and historic knowledge as well as to obtain an understanding...

...Erin Stewart Mauldin Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton: Environmental Histories of the Global Plantation . Edited by Frank Uekötter . New York : Campus Verlag , 2014 . 272 pp., $49.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-3-593-50028-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

... landscape was evident in the efforts of growers. Instead of being a place of easy wealth, novice orchardists were often frustrated by their new landscape and the pressure to conform to industrialized methods. Although the Washington apple industry was ultimately successful, many growers struggled and failed...

... ties with his family, purchased several plots of land, and earned a modest living from the sale of trees. While Chapman is central to the story, his apple trees also play a large role. Apple orchards were ubiquitous in America, and the nation s changing relationship with the apple says much about...

... odhams, Seris, Rarámuris, and other people living in the mountains and deserts of Arizona, Chihuahua, New Mexico, and Sonora. Here are grown a diverse variety of peppers, beans, corn, squash, apples, and other crops, many of them drought-tolerant heirlooms developed through centuries of selective...

... as growers,sharecroppers,packers,shippers,and otherentrepreneuriarl oles in the expandingagriculturailndustryI.ndeed, thediversityin the industryitself allowed space fora diversepopulation to contributeand thrive. The apple industryo,ne of the firstmajor horticulturatlriumphsfor the Pajaro Valley...

... plants, migrant labor, and commercial agricultural practices ebbed and flowed across a permeable southwestern border. This study, divided into three thematic sections each comprising two chapters, investigates the successive development of New Mexico's commercial apple, cotton, and chili pepper...

... of the past (22). 123 Agricultural History Winter The term edible memory is a somewhat slippery idea, encompassing both personal experience the distinctive taste of that northern Spy apple in grandmother s apple pie and also something more collective and what scholar alison landberg called prosthetic...

... began to plant fruit trees and bushes soon after establishing permanent settlements. In 1617 farmer Louis Hdbert planted the first apple trees recorded in the history of Canada. For some, fruit cultivation held the promise of rural diversification. Following the Conquest of 1759-60, British elites...

... Report of Iowa Book of Agriculture, 142 and "1970 Apple Grower Survey Report, Western IowaEastern Nebraska," File 5/17, Box 5, Series 9/16/21, E. L. Denisen Papers, ISUSC 9 Anon., "History of Iowa Beekeeping," Forty-Sixth Annual Iowa Year Book of Agriculture, 213-18 Twenty-Sixth Annual Iowa Year...

..., 1999. 256 pp., $38.00, hardback, ISBN 1-57233-052-X; $16.95, paperback, ISBN 1-57233-053-8. There is an old joke that an "intellectual" is someone who thinks about something other than sex 10 percent of the time. If so, Rooted in America is the intellectual's agricultural history. From the apple...

... 1-57233-053-8. There is an old joke that an "intellectual" is someone who thinks about something other than sex 10 percent of the time. If so, Rooted in America is the intellectual's agricultural history. From the apple of Eve's eye to wa- termelon seed spitting contests symbolizing males spreading...

... temptations, comparing them to Eve s apple, especially the exemplar of the hamburger, even if the other two members of the holy trinity of fast food sugary drinks and French fries are probably more of a dietary concern. Much of the book is devoted to themes that are related to her topic but not directly...

... nineteenth century, increasing competition from Ontario and the United States out-priced Quebec growers. As a result, long-time local specialties, such as the melon of Montreal, which enjoyed a high-class export market for some time, essentially disappeared. Distinctive local varieties of apples and other...

... is fascinating. Perhaps the best article is David Dendy's ac? count of the constantly shifting battle between Okanagan apple growers and the apple-devouring codling moth. Lacking the preachiness of many eco? logical histories, it is a thorough, balanced, and thoughtful model of how environmental history should...

... not with? out some problems, Brian Low's article on how the National Film Board of Canada "manufactured" reality for a documentary about education in a country school is fascinating. Perhaps the best article is David Dendy's ac? count of the constantly shifting battle between Okanagan apple growers...

.... Diamond , “Origins of Pioneer Apple Orchards in the American West: Random Seeding versus Artisan Horticulture,” Agricultural History 84 ( Fall 2010 ): 425 , noted that few farmers sold fruit from trees before the Revolutionary War. 10. New Jersey Raw Data, United States Census Bureau...