David Benscoter, of the Lost Apple Project,8 has written an interesting history of the search for lost apples in Eastern Washington. To date, Benscoter and his group have rediscovered around 30 apples ...
Apple varieties number into the thousands with different types preferred for eating, making juice and cider, baking and processing. Growers are constantly experimenting with new varieties.
Some apple varieties have been specifically cultivated ... 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 ...
"I'm a bit of an apple detective. 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.
Many varieties of apples are available as both container-grown stock or as bare-root whips, which are one-year-old single-stem trees without any side branches. Hundreds of different apple varieties ...