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Himachal Products bringing you the best and quality food products from Himachal. The Apple --An Apple a day keeps the doctor away , Himachali Apple is the Best Apple in all over the world ----Cheers History of Himachali Apples : Samuel Evans Stokes : Apples Gift to Himachal Apple growers in India’s Western Himalayas still remember Samuel Evans Stokes, the American who brought the fruit to their land a century ago. Read more Stokes went to India to teach and ended up staying there to learn. Stokes’ granddaughter tells his story in a new book, An American in Gandhi’s India. Samuel Evan Stokes, 21, came to India with the intention of working at a home for lepers in the Simla hills. He married a local pahari girl, played an active role in India’s freedom struggle and was even jailed by the British. Somewhere along the way, he introduced apple crop in the hills around Shimla. In 1904, Stokes arrived in India and started working in that leper home in the Himalayan foothills. He quickly realized that the people there needed help to fight not only disease, but poverty as well.Samuel Evans Stokes came to India as a missionary and ended up a Hindu, fighting for India’s freedom Samuel Evans Stokes came to India in 1904 as a missionary and ended up a Hindu, fighting for India’s freedom. On September 12,1912 he marries Agnes, a Rajput-Christian woman Six kilometres away from Thanedar at Kotgarh stands an old church built by the British in 1843. In the early 1900’s Stokes was sent here to recuperate from the heat of the Indian plains. He’d come to India with a doctor couple — Mr and Mrs Carleton — who were working with the Leprosy Mission of India.During a visit to Philadelphia, the couple had been asking for donations at the local church for their work in India and young Stokes was very moved by their cause and dedication and wanted to help out by voluntarily working for the mission in India. In 1926 the first apple trees bear fruit and the apples are sold.It was during a visit to America in 1915 that Samuel Stokes heard about the new strain of apples patented by the Stark Brothers nursery in Louisiana called the Red Delicious. He bought a few saplings and planted them at his Barobagh orchard in Thanedar in the winter of 1916. Five years later his mother sent him a consignment of saplings of the Stark Brothers Golden Delicious Apples as a Christmas gift. The first apples bore Update description

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Himachali A. 2017-11-24
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Himachali A. 2016-12-28
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Himachali A. 2015-02-22
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