Apple flower buds are borne on spurs, which are unelongated or compressed reproductive branches of tips of a shoot. Training trees to produce spurs is critical in apple fruit yield. Apple buds ...

Robert O’Brien, the national-security adviser An apple tree in bloom is a thing of majesty: armlike branches, held aloft in an eternal pose of praise (or perhaps exasperation), wreathed in a ...

Most dwarf apple trees are created by grafting. With this method, a branch of any apple variety, such as Northern Spy, McIntosh or Red Delicious, is joined to a special dwarfing rootstock a few ...

Branching out: Pippin pioneer Paul Barnett climbs a ladder in his garden to examine one of the apple varieties on his ‘family tree’ (Picture: M&Y) With its gnarled, straggling branches propped ...