IMPORTANT EXPLANATIONFrançais All these photographs can figure with help of the national association of the croqueurs de pommes and the botanical conservatory of Gap Charance that I hold to thank. For all reproduction or copy, please consult me lescrets@club-internet.fr   COMMERCIAL CRITERIA apples sold in the trade correspond only to criteria of resistance useful to the culture and to distributors. An apple, to to be cultivated and sold has to resist to the transportation, to the stocking todiseases and to the time. Even so that, they undergo again very important chemical processings and very ominous for the health. Nevertheless, nothing prevents producers to orient to a natural fruit culture, varied and oriented to what we have lost : the taste and the diversity. The negative result : in the world so called civilized, people does not cultivate more than five or six varieties and always the same. Demanded a change, leaves to pay more expensive the kilo, we will save in health and will find the pleasure. GENETIC DIVERSITY There exists more of 11000 varieties of apples whose you will find the list on this site. The apple is impressive as for criteria according to whether it can decline : small all (10 grams) or huge (until 1 kg), lengthened or flat; pentagonal, patrol or even in form of star, it has especially a fan of very varied taste and borrows that all fruit of the creation : an apple can have the flavor of a raspberry, a strawberry, a banana, the rose, the quince, the pineapple, the orange, the lemon or other flavours more particular, special and indefinable. But the most important character of the apple is to be all seasons and one can tell that each month the year and even each day of each month has its apple variety that arrives to full maturity. An apple a day and the doctor's away tells the old saying but a different apple each morning it is again better !   HOW TO BUY THEM You can grow the Proposed varieties in your orchard. They have been chosen among the most remarkable listed in the whole world and have all a certain notoriety. They have made their proof and are worth the varieties of the trade and surpass them most the time. a white winter calville has Seven time more Vitamins C that a golden delicious; a rennet of the Mans or a beautiful of Mleiv has more perfume that a Granny smith; a belle des buits will flower only after the frozen belated and will fulfill you what ever arrives. Few nurseries nevertheless distribute the diversity and it is not injury to observe that it is not found more than in museums and orchards of the true fanatics. Nevertheless, it would suffice only a few advertisement with beautiful photographs on a beautiful catalogues and praise merits. you will find some adresses on this site in my repertory, but for most of these apples, it will be necessary you to graft them you same or to make them graft by a specialist. Grafts will be obtained by contacting associations of amateurs as the croqueurs de pommes or Nafex or Seed Savers for example .   BACK