Forest apple

In any mixed forest can be found wild apple tree. Leshovka, so call it in the people, bearing in mind that apples are there only by a devil, ie, the owner of the forest, they are so sour. But they are all very different: one is bitter, more bitter than the other, a sweet, others sour, sweet, and may fall. It was then, and should initially carry out the correct selection: leshovka long as it requested in culture, which is what has made in the end. Among the fruit trees of temperate zone apple, no doubt, occupies the first place. Its value can be compared with what has, for example, wheat cereals, cabbage among the leafy vegetable plants or sunflower field among oilseeds.

Rhode Apple has over 30 species: in our country - 15 species of wild and many cultivars. In the European part of the widely available apple wood (early, wild) in the Crimea and the Caucasus - apple east, in Siberia and the Far East - Siberian apple and apple berry, in Central Asia - Sievers apple and apple Niedzwiecki et al

Wild apple trees rather cold-resistant, more often single trees on forest edges, glades, roadsides forest roads and some forest-steppe oak forests form a separate tier. Progenitor of cultivated varieties of apple are 4 of the form: forest apple, low apple, apple berry Siberian and Chinese plum apple. By the time of fruit ripening apple varieties are divided into summer, autumn and winter. Apple is in the people-plant healer. In ancient times believed that the apples that are used for dinner, provide a healthy, restful sleep, fetal liver gave patients pleurisy, and ready-mixed with fat was applied as an ointment for cracks on the lips, hands to them faster healing. Apple juice is a good remedy for beriberi, atherosclerosis, gout, kidney stone disease, rheumatism, anemia, kidney and liver. Tea from leaves and petals of apple helps with colds, soothes coughs.

Apples contain a substance with antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties. Particularly indicated for people with a languid, loose, porous and wrinkled skin, with freckles and pigmented spots. Mature fruits contain sugar, pectin, vitamins, amino acids, flavonoids, organic acids, tannins and coloring matter, carotene and mineral salts. Biologically active substances found in apples, normalize the various biochemical and physiological processes in the human body.

As cosmetic apples are widely used in ancient times. From pureed apples, mixed with fat, made of lipstick, adding to them different colors. Modern cosmetics recommended for fast healing of wounds, ulcers, abrasions, fractures (especially on the lips) pulp from apples as a means of weakening the inflammatory processes of the skin. Apples used in the form of heat masks, refresh and rejuvenate the skin. To do this, they are boiled in a small amount of milk, crushed and put this weight on your face. After 15-20 minutes the mask off with cold water.

Beauty recommends external use of fresh apples, for example for removing warts. To this end, fruit (preferably acidic forest or garden - Antonov) cut and fresh cut rub the wart for a few minutes up to 6-7 times a day for 3-4 weeks. Decoction of leaves of summer head to rinse well after washing to strengthen hair.

Apple - winter-hardy species, resistant to -42 œ C. The best soil for the apple - gumusirovannye loamy and well drained with loamy subsoil and groundwater, not closer than 2 , 5 m from the soil surface.