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Biggest ever display of different varieties of fruit

After having carefully examined the paperwork relating to the biggest ever display of different varieties of fruit at the Zug Fair last year, a committee from the Guinness Book of Records has concluded that the display was indeed a world record.
 
Oddly enough, the Swiss Fruit-growers' Association (SOV) and Fructus, the body which promotes the cultivation of old types of fruit, never intended to aim for a world record. The display was simply to be a special one to commemorate the occasion of the centenary of the SOV. In fact its title at the fair, "1,000 Different Varieties of Fruit", was very modest in its claims as 1,740 types of fruit were actually exhibited.
 
"It was only when we noticed what a lot of unusual varieties of fruit we were about to put on display that we decided to go for a world record," said Josef Christen, head of PR of the SOV. "Our main aim behind the display was to show the public what a lot of different types of fruit there are and how they can be used."
 
Markus Zwicky, a Zug lawyer and Hermann Hotz, a Baar fruit-grower, acted as two independent judges on the occasion of the display held between 22 - 30 October.
 
Among the fruit on show were different types of apples, pears, quinces, damsons and apricots as well as nuts and berries. "One type of apple we were particularly proud to be able to exhibit were the so-called Sternapi variety" (second photograph), said Christen. No old trees of this type remain in Switzerland but some saplings have been set in the arboretum at Aubonne in the canton of Vaud and at the Fructus fruit tree nursery in Höri in the canton of Zurich. The variety is the oldest in Switzerland and it is said to date back to Roman times; even Cleopatra is alleged to have eaten them.


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