With so much variation in fruit taste, size and quantity, many gardeners are eager to reproduce the perfect apple when they find it. Often the first question is how to propagate an apple tree from ...

This week, I decided to try air layering a very old apple tree. I’m not sure what variety it is, but the fruit is delicious. Air layering is an age-old process of propagating plants that involves ...

Cosmic Crisp bud placed in notch of rootstock tree will be wrapped in plastic to heal in. Next spring the stem will be cut off above the new bud to grow a Cosmic Crisp tree. EPHRATA, Wash. — Ricardo ...

With so much variation in fruit taste, size and quantity, many gardeners are eager to reproduce the perfect apple when they find it. Often the first question we receive is how to propagate an apple ...

Q. I want to cut stems from my apple tree and use them to start new trees. I have tried this for several years with no success. I have even used rooting hormone powders, but they did not help. What do ...

This botanic garden is determined to bring back the American chestnut tree and heirloom apples that taste like those grown 500 years ago. It won’t be easy. By Margaret Roach “Explore what’s in bloom ...

The year is 1666 and, as mathematician Sir Isaac Newton takes a stroll around his family home of Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, he sees an apple fall to the ground. The rest, as they say, is ...