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Newton’s Apples fruit in TOYOKEIKI’s Garden

August 20th, 2014

Trees of Newton’s Apple fruit in the “Raicho Forest” in front of TOYOKEIKI’s headquarters building. In 2012, Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo (goes by the name of Koishikawa Botanical Garden) gave the tree of “Newton’s Apple” to TOYOKEIKI and this is the first time the tree fruits. The apples have grown to 10cm and have turned to red, which is the heritage of Newton’s great achievement.

It is said that Isaac Newton found the law of gravity by watching an apple falling from the tree. In 1964, Sir Gordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland, the director of National Physical Laboratory (the UK) gave the graft of the tree to Yuji Shibata, the president of the Japan Academy, and it was planted in Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo. The tree of TOYOKEIKI was given by the Botanical Garden with “Mendel’s Grape” in the spring of 2012.

Newton’s Apple in the “Raicho Forest” in the TOYOKEIKI’s garden

From the autumn of 2012, TOYOKEIKI opens the trees to the public by setting the portrait of Newton and Mendel around the tree, and this has had a good reputation because it lets us know the great achievement of them. This year, the tree bloomed in May, and the apple which has turned to red of the tree has grown to about 10 cm in diameter.

TOYOKEIKI would like to tell local elementary students who visit our factory to take a field trip about the value of measurement in the future through Newton’s Apple, and hope we will be able to give them an incentive to study science.