Rediscovered in the late 1900s, found in a cluster of 100-plus year old trees by Roy Slamm, this antique variety is a dessert and cider apple. It has lacey red and orange splotches all over ...

It was dedication like his that helped to sustain some of the rare and traditional types of apples we still have with us today. Too often old varieties are allowed to vanish from our orchards. I still ...

I've been interested in old varieties all my life. "I showed some fruit to a botanist, who was very curious about a single tree bearing bright yellow apples. It took DNA testing to identify the ...

Instead, for thousands of years, people have used grafting to hang on to apple varieties they like, taking a cutting from an old tree and growing it onto a new set of roots. That means that each ...

Along with types including Donegal Green Chisel ... that we want people to enjoy for free. “Each apple tree, from about 10 years old, can produce a minimum of 2,000 apples in its average 100 ...

The flavours of traditional apples range greatly, from the freshly fragrant with hints of strawberries to the full-bodied, nutty and spicy types that come later in the season. There are two types ...

The flavours of traditional apples range greatly, from the freshly fragrant with hints of strawberries to the full-bodied, nutty and spicy types that come later in the season. There are two types ...

Apples require pollen from a different apple variety to grow fruit. If you only have room in your yard for one tree, there may be crab apples in your neighborhood to provide the pollen your tree needs ...

Now, new varieties of apples, better suited for warmer temperatures, were introduced. In Solan District, for instance, forty-seven- year-old Rajesh Kumar switched from growing vegetables to ...

But Myers wasn't sure what varieties of apples his old trees were producing. Several years ago he learned of the Lost Apple Project, based in Whitman County, Wash., whose mission is to identify ...