The trials and tribulations of apples and other imported fruits in the Nilgiris
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The trials and tribulations of apples and other imported fruits in the Nilgiris

The Hindu  

The Nilgiris is synonymous with the Ooty apple. W. Francis, the British officer who authored the Gazette of the Nilgiris, says that English fruit trees were imported to the Nilgiris almost as soon as the first Europeans settled there. Francis says the pest spread easily by the clothes of the coolies working among the trees, by Sambhar, by grafts from the infected trees, and even by fruits being hawked. Again good varieties of peaches imported from Australia — Red Shanghai, Carmen, Gros Mignon, and Emma — suited well to the area. Local historians claim that a gradual shift in consumer preference — for fruits imported from other parts of the world — broke the back of the apple-growers in the Nilgiris as cultivation became unviable.

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