The Apple Song

                                                               Apple Day.

     Apple Day is an annual
celebration, of apples and orchards. It’s held on October 21 each year.

Apple Day was initiated by Common Ground in 1990 and has been celebrated
in each subsequent year by people organizing hundreds of local events.

Apple is a symbol of physical, cultural and genetic variety.

       This day is a way of celebrating and
demonstrating that variety and richness matter to a locality and that it is
possible to effect change in your place.

The first Apple Day was on October 21, 1990 in Covent Garden, London.

       Apple day celebration is something like fair,
where you can buy and taste the great variety of apple kinds.

  There
are many 7000 kinds of apples in the world

     Various activities, games and
competitions are popular on this day.

The Longest Peel Competition is the most popular. Guinness World Record is held by Kathy
Walfer  who peeled an apple in 11 hours
30 minutes with a peel length of 52.51m on 16 October 1976.

An old tradition is the English farmers choose the oldest apple-tree sing
ballads and dance round the tree.

     Apple Day is a fun