The Blair House Museum (of apples)

The museum was named after the station's first superintendent, Dr. William Saxby Blair. Constructed in 1911, the house served as the superintendents' residence until 1979. The house was built to accommodate more than a single family. For 70 years this was a private residence.
http://www.nsapples.com/museumb.htm

On May 29, 1981, during the celebration of the 50th Apple Blossom Festival, the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' Association finally opened the Blair House museum to the public. The museum was created to preserve and display the history of the apple growing industry and of the Research Station. It tells the history of the apple industry in Nova Scotia through numerous pictures, stories and artifacts. Apple barrel making tools, apple baskets, apple peelers and even an old sprayer, show how things were done over a half-century ago.

Die Paradiesapfel

This is a Google translation of the website for a German pomology group called NABU that is apple and pear focused. (I think) It's readable but, …Probably makes more sense in the original German.


"The old sorts of apples and pears, but also game fruit places such as elders, Mispel and Speierling are not only rediscovered today. On the basis splendourful illustrations from old fruit books the book selected fruit places presents, its history and its use. Old and new prescriptions, legends, poems, stories and customs make the book a read pleasure for Geniesser and nature friends."


It includes the legend of the Paradiesapfel

"Paradiesapfel the fertility symbol, dear symbol and life symbol, blows over the apple always also the breath of condemnation and death. Its tight-erotic appearance and sweet succulence serve the seduction. But already the first bite into the first apple of the tree of the knowledge brought in Adam and Eve the expulsion out of the paradise. (...)Die Landschaftsplanerin Erika scissors mouth introduces not only the splendor and glory of old apple sorts and pears sorts in its book based on centuries of old botanical picture books, but rather roves generally through the fruit worlds and berries worlds how they can grew and still grow once in gardens and free wild. In addition it tells fruit myths and berries fairy tale and gives prescriptions to win by approximately Berberitzen-syrup or to soften pigeons with Borsdorfer apples slowly yield".