Apples are the most important fruits, of the fall season: part three

Apple rootstock:
Rootstocks have been, used to control the size, of the apple tree for two thousand years.
The dwarf rootstock ,was probably discovered accidentally in Asia.
Alexander the Great sent specimens, of dwarf apple trees to his teacher Aristotle, in Greece.
These trees, have been preserved at Lykiam, an educational center in Greece.
The latest apple rootstock, bred in the twentieth century.
Much research, began on modern rootstocks, in a research center in Kent, England.