Is Shakespeare's day all fruit were apples, *nd that when old writers use the word they mean anything. We
... love apples, oak-apples and «o, past rlavs, they said pine-apple (for fir cone), and fir•pplc, balsam-apple, apple (for blackberry), sugar-apple (for dates), apples of the •pricot, and apples of the cedar, and on. ...