Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (ed. Random House, 2001) - ISBN: 9781588360083