The word wassail has its roots in the old English for “your health” and the associated tradition involves the blessing of apple trees to ensure a good harvest. Wassails are generally noisy ...
a 17-year-old boy named Henry Merryweather came across a gardener carrying some of the apples and asked where they had been grown. By this time, the garden containing the apple tree belonged to a ...
said the fruit came from a lone old apple tree in a hedgerow. "While I am certainly no fruit expert, it immediately struck me as highly unusual, unlike any apple I'd seen before," he said.
In 2014, as old trees began to crack and split ... Across the park there are now 86 new antique apple trees. In a rare treat for national parks, Sleeping Bear allows visitors to pick antique ...