APPLES

Every home should have a couple apple trees, or twenty.   Besides producing huge amounts of good food, they become a part of the landscape, a living architecture that seems to evoke joy in humans.   The apple provides flowers and perfume in the spring and delicious fruit and cider in the fall! Apples are easy to graft using rootstocks or by topworking old trees,  and they do not take long to start fruiting.    Two varieties of apple are required to set a good crop - wild apples, crab apples, ornamental crab apples, and your neighbors apples all count!