LL-L "Horticulture" 2010.10.31 (06) [EN]

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From: Hellinckx Luc <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Horticulture"



Beste Heather,



You wrote:

So I was wondering - do apple trees figure in places names in the
Lowlands? Or even in any extant Markenbeschreibungen? Did the apple
tree figure at all in Anglo-Saxon life?



There's "Appelterre", not far from Ninove, city in Eastern Flanders,
"Apeldoorn" in Dutch Gelderland, "Appeldorn" in the German Kreis Kleve and
"Appeltern", north of the Dutch Brabantish city of Oss. All derive from
ap(p)el + thra, thrô (apple-tree).



Ancestral home of the apple is thought to be the area south of Alma-Ata,
Kazakhstan named after a saint who would be "Father of Apples".



Kind greetings,

 Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium



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