The Drap D'Or de Bretagna - or Golden Cloth of Brittany, in French, is one of a few historic apples that are the genetic ...

Fruit trees can be one of the most rewarding additions to your garden. A well-cared-for, mature apple tree can yield between ...

since most apple trees don’t live longer than 140 years. “You’ll see carcasses of old trees. We have no idea what they were, and some of them could have been lost varieties,” Benscoter says.

The backyard apple tree was left to grow wild—until a recent surge in interest in heritage varieties and hard cider production. As scraggly and unkempt as an old apple tree may appear, it can still be ...

He's there in all the old photographs, staring out at you. But who is he? The DNA of some apple varieties, for instance, shows that they are descended from a lost tree, one that must have existed ...

A CU ecology professor noticed an apple tree in a Boulder field. What happened next grew into something bigger.

There is human desire and intention behind every tree, because the science requires it. Stephen Mihm’s move to an old Athens-area farm sparked his interest in forgotten apple varieties.

But old trees are dying ... and the specific heirloom varieties have become rare. For some, like the park's namesake red apple, these orchards might be their last hope. COTRELL: If we lose ...

Great old trees are not unique to Colorado or the ... “There were once thousands of cultivated apple varieties, and now we’re down to hundreds,” says Vanessa Harmony, a tree propagator ...

On Boronia Farm, just outside Donnybrook in Western Australia, stands an 80-something-year-old apple tree (Malus domestica ... no Bravo — apple varieties that, along with the Lady Williams ...

Today's apples don't grow on towering trees, could have been picked in ... most American supermarkets sold only a few apple varieties – Red Delicious, Golden Delicious and Granny Smiths.