Posted on March 14, 2010.
History fruits introduced into America - Native American Fruit Trees and Hybrid Fruit Tree Improvements Christopher Columbus in 1493 introduced citrus trees into America on the island of Haiti, by planting the seed of the tree of sweet orange, bitter orange, lemon, lemon, lime, grapefruit and fruit trees. Records show that citrus trees were well established by the Spaniards on the coasts of South Carolina and St. Augustine, Florida by the year 1563.
Historical English documents show that the League of Massachusetts in 1629 sent seeds of pear trees to plant and grow fruit trees in the American colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Captain John Smith reported in 1629 that the peach crop seeds have been growing in the American colony at Jamestown, Virginia. The apple trees were grown in Boston, Massachusetts in 1629 by William Blackstone, an American settler, and the practice of planting fruit trees spread rapidly among many other farmers there.
Other fruit tree seeds that were sent to farmers to plant and cultivate settler were: cherry, peach, plum, hazelnut, apple, quince and pomegranate, and according to the documents, they emerged and flourished . "
In 1707, historical records show that the Spanish mission fruit trees cultivated by Spanish-Americans were: oranges, figs, quinces, pomegranates, peaches, apricots, apples, pears, mulberries, pecans and other trees.
General Oglethorpe, the first governor of the colony of Georgia, settled at Fort Frederica, located in Saint Simons Island, Georgia, in 1733, the same day that the city of Savannah, Georgia was created with the designated target of the introduction of fruit trees that increase valuable food sources for farmers in Georgia. John Bartram, the famous explorer and father of William Bartram traveled extensively, after the Spanish abandoned their lands, to take an inventory of plants, trees and vines that could be used by farmers in the American colonies.
General Oglethorpe imported 500 white mulberry, Morus alba, in 1733 to encourage and economically support the developing colonial interests in the silk production at Fort Frederica, Georgia, the British colony on the island of St. Simon, Georgia .
Henry Laurens, a president of the Continental Congress from South Carolina, introduced: olives, lemon, strawberry Everbearing, red raspberry and culture in the colonies and the south of France, he imported and introduced apples , pears, plums, and the white Chasselas was in abundance.
In 1763, George Mason noted in his diary of his fruit orchard planted large house that had an old French variety of pear, and he "grafted 10 black pear of Worchester."
The mission of trees black figure was made famous when it was found growing in a Spanish monastery in 1770.
The first American fruit tree nursery was opened in 1737 by Robert Prince at Flushing, New York, who sold fruit to President George Washington, who visited the nursery. Prince Nursery advertised "42 pear trees for sale" in 1771 and '33 types of plums. " 500 white mulberry trees, Morus Alba, and 1000 black mulberry, Morus nigra, were bought by Robert Prince in 1774. Robert Prince sold an extensive list of grafted peach to President Thomas Jefferson, to be planted in the orchard host Jefferson at Monticello, Virginia. President Thomas Jefferson loved eating peaches, and dry the sliced peaches chips fishing "for his granddaughter and fermented fresh peaches into wine and distilled fishing later in the mix peach brandy. Jefferson has also introduced the French mixture of tea and fresh peach juice called Pesche (fishing) tea. Jefferson experimented with the delightful "black plumb fishing" of Georgia, now well known and still sold as the "Indian Blood Peach Tree." Jefferson believed the Indian Blood Peach grew tr.
