Apples in 1700s

A common fruit originally from Central Asia, and the European settlers or colonists brought the apples to North America, per wiki.

I had two apple tress in the courtyard in Beijing but did not think they yielded any crops.

^{Imperial Twilight (2018), p127-8}  [1793, in China] … Soon, however, they were told it was time to leave Jehol and go back to Beijing. On September 21, the day of their departure, yet another of Macartney’s entourage died, a gunner named [Jeremy] Reid. Perhaps to console himself, Macartney blamed it on the dead man’s intemperate appetite, noting disapprovingly that Reid had eaten forty apples that morning at breakfast. But even if Macartney refused to entertain the likelihood that his entourage suffered from a contagious disease, his hosts did not, and a certain amount of the hurry with which they were urged along was, according to gossip in the palace, because the emperor worried that the members of the British embassy might infect his court.

When the Delanos sailed to China in 1844:  “There was enough ice left, that Warren gifted it to his brother Ned, along with the crispy New England apples.”