The History Of The Watergate Salad. There are dozens of stories about the history of the Watergate Salad floating around the web. We asked our archivist at Kraft headquarters in Northfield, Illinois to tell us the real story of the history of the Watergate Salad, and hereâs what she had to say.
These common seed pods are easily recognized such as the tomato, the apple, corn and more. With the thousands of plants and vegetables creating seed pods of lesser known varieties, the identification of the pods can be an extensive enterprise unless the plant, flower and pods are readily available for matching.
But the occurrence of a particularly delicious apple in such wild conditions is made all the more remarkable when considering how apples reproduce. Seeds from an apple do not grow into the same variety as their parent. Rather, varieties are the result of cross-pollination, which are then preserved in agriculture not by planting, but by grafting part of the existing tree to grow anew. The genetic origins of McIntosh's apple tree remain a mystery, but it is clear that it was one of a kind. Realizing that he'd found a revolutionary variety, the farmer set about to grafting more and more trees from the original in an attempt to keep up with local, then regional demand. Nowadays, McIntosh red apples (or simply 'Macs) are among the most popular varieties in the world -- but incredibly, it is from that one tree, discovered by accident 200 years ago, that all McIntosh apples are ...