Chapter One: The Apples of My Eye
1 Shane Peacock, Mr. McIntosh’s Wonderful Apple.
2 “Food Movement, Rising,” The New York Times Review of Books, May 20, 2010.
3 Ibid.
4 The dates of apple origins sometimes vary by a few years according to the source. In most cases, I have used dates supplied in the apple variety index of the website Orange Pippin.
Chapter Two: “A” is for Apple
1 Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple.
2 The University of Illinois website.
3 Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple.
4 Jim Rahe, “Singing the Praises of Gravenstein,” The Cider Press, BC Fruit Testers Association archives.
5 Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (New York, Random House, 2001), 11.
6 LifeCycles Project Society website.
Chapter Three: From the Garden of Eden
1 Midwest Apple Improvement Association.
2 The Precious Book of Enrichment is an ancient Chinese text, apparently written around 5000 BC.
3 Henry David Thoreau, “Wild Apples,” The Atlantic, 1862.
4 Dr. Barrie Juniper and David J. Mabberley, The Story of the Apple (Portland, Oregon, Timber Press, 2006).
5 Dr. Barrie Juniper, “The Mysterious Origin of the Sweet Apple,” American Scientist, January–February, 2007.
6 Pollan, The Botany of Desire, 7.
7 Pollan, op cit, 9.
8 Pollan, op cit, 23.
9 Carol Martin, The Apple: A History of Canada’s Perfect Fruit (Toronto, Ontario, McArthur & Company, 2006).
10 Ibid.
11 Apple Luscious Organic Orchard, appleluscious.com.
12 “The Islands—A Well Known Fruit District,” Victoria Daily Colonist, December 13, 1908.
13 The Garden of Eden: The History of Apple Orchards in the Okanagan Valley, PDF.
Chapter Four: How Do You Like Them Apples?
1 The University of Illinois, urbanext.illinois.edu/apples/facts.cfm.
2 The Apples of the Apple Festival, pamphlet written and produced by The Friends of the UBC Botanical Garden.
Chapter Five: Biting Into a Surprise
2 The Fruit Gardener, published by the California Rare Fruit Growers, Volume 27, Number 3, May/June 1995.
4 Richard Espley, “Under the Skin of the Red-Fleshed Apple”.
Chapter Six: “Surely the Noblest of all Fruit”
1 The University of Illinois, urbanext.illinois.edu/apples/facts.cfm.
2 “Communities In Bloom,” British Columbia, Evaluation Form, 2011, PDF.
3 “Who We Are,” BC Fruit Testers Association.
5 Creemore Heritage Apple Society.
6 Ibid.
8 An Apple a Day, Mary Mollet, self-published, 1995.
Chapter Seven: “Comfort Me with Apples”
1 The Acorn, Salt Spring Conservancy, Number 36, Fall 2007.
Chapter Eight: Deep Roots
1 “In The Classroom Facts and Folklore,” BC Agriculture, PDF.
2 Jessie Ann Smith, as told to J. Meryle Campbell and Audrey Wild, Widow Smith of Spences Bridge (Merritt, British Columbia, Sonotek Publishing, 1989), 9.
3 Hoodoo Ranch, hoodooranch.ca.
Chapter Nine: The Cider House Rules
2 Definition according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
3 Merridale Estate Cidery, merridalecider.com.
Chapter Ten: The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree
1 M. Maclean, “Edmonton a hotbed for heritage apples,” Edmonton Journal, September 7, 2007.