Most of the apple trees planted in the past century, called old-timeor full-size, can live 75 years or longer, even under conditions of complete neglect. The apple sleuths questioned elderly gardeners ...

On Verona Island, at the end of a dirt road, a couple dozen wizened apple trees stand sentry in a grassy field sloping down to the river. To the untrained eye, it's a bunch of old trees. To apple ...

Brown searches for old varieties of apples, heirloom kinds that you won't find at Harris Teeter. Some are lopsided; others are tinged with russeting, a kind of apple skin, slightly rough, and greenish ...