Showing posts with label Aland Island. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Aland Apples


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On June 7, 2011, Åland Post issued the stamp series featured the fruit of Åland Island. The issue stamp comprised of two stamp with nominal value of  5 cent stamp as well as a 4 euro stamp. Both stamps show the Åland apple cultivar Strömma.The apples on the stamps were photographed in Hammarland.

More than 100 years ago, the Ålander Fridolf Sundberg began spreading his varieties of apples in Åland and the southern parts of Finland. On a farm in the village of Strömma in Hammarland, he discovered the Strömma cultivar
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