We have quite a treat for lovers of our Garden, but not only. All those who are interested in old varieties or just like apples in any form, will certainly like our proposal for a Christmas gift.

"The Apple Tree in the Garden" is the latest publication of our Garden, which premiered on November 27. The album collects 11 essays by 12 authors, perfectly complementing each other and showing how much in European culture and in our country the apple is an important and recognizable symbol. The subject matter of the book is on the one hand homogeneous, on the other - treating apples and apple trees in a variety of ways: there is about fruit on the tree, on the plate and in the glass, about the apple in culture, about apple trees growing in paradise and in our Garden.

The book is published on beautiful chalk paper, and the text is in Polish and English. It consists of 272 pages and has a hardcover.

The book comes with a gift that is sure to be a pleasant surprise for any lover of our Garden

The album can be purchased in the garden store during the Garden's opening hours, i.e. 9 am - 1 pm, or you can order it: informacja@obpan.pl and we will send the book as a Christmas gift.

Price: 65 PLN (+ 15 PLN postage).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Temptation - instead of an introduction - Pawel Kojs and Romuald Zabielski
Apple Trail: from Paradise to Warsaw - Arkadiusz Nowak and Marcin Kotowski
Old varieties of apple trees collected in the PAN Botanical Garden - CZRB in Powsin - Adam Kapler and Ryszard Rawski
Bank of historical apple varieties, or collection of apple trees in the freezer - Konrad Wolinski
Professor Szczepan Aleksander Pieniążek - the life of a great scholar in the apple world - Jerzy Puchalski
Apples on the tongue - Malgorzata Szymanczyk
Apple and apple tree with pen and brush, subjectively - Ludmilla Kot
Apples my love - Katarzyna Bosacka
A few words about cider and jabol - Romuald Zabielski
Apple in the kitchen - Wojciech Modest Amaro
Hanami in Polish - Ludmila Kot

 

FROM THE INTRODUCTION

We can trace the origins of all, in many cases still alive today, apple associations and symbols to ancient Greece, where the apple tree found its way from Central Asia, traveling with merchant caravans through the Middle East. About how paradise, lost by the temptations of the first people, was found, and in it, not differently, apple trees, pomegranates and pistachio groves, and how the apple tree found its way to the Vistula River, you will learn from the essay entitled " The Apple Trail: from Paradise to Warsaw" by Arkadiusz Nowak and Marcin Kotowski. There you will also find a good justification of what we are dealing with in our botanical garden. And we are engaged in the preservation of natural and cultural diversity, of which the hundreds of varieties of apple trees that have found their refugium in our garden are an excellent example and expression. Adam Kapler and Ryszard Rawski wrote more extensively about the varieties of apple trees grown in the botanical garden, as well as the history of the establishment and organization of the pomological collection.

(...) Professor Pieniążek is written about by the long-time director of the Botanical Garden of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Professor Jerzy Puchalski, presenting not only the work of the Great Fruit Grower, but also his path that at the end of his career led him to the Botanical Garden in Powsin.

(...) The position of apple fruit was unique not only in Poland. Therefore, it should not come as a surprise that in our cultural circle, it was around apples that the "metaphor of the fruit" was developed and perpetuated. For example, in order to express the common belief that children often follow in the footsteps of their parents, it was not usual in this part of the world to say that it does not fall far from the mango tree, even if we love mangoes. We are more willing to refer to the familiar apple tree and apple in such sayings.

(...) In the collection "Apple in the Garden" there is also a place for apple delicacies, which master Wojciech Modest Amaro ("Apple in the Kitchen") was willing to share with us and you.

(...) We hope that reading the book "Apple Tree in the Garden" will give you a lot of pleasure from peeking into the apple tree world and awaken an unstoppable temptation, a lust to even visit the living collection of apple trees (in spring with pale pink blossoms, and in autumn with aromatic and diverse fruits) at the PAN Botanical Garden - Center for the Preservation of Biological Diversity in Powsin.