Apple lore says that the farmer who found it named it after his wife, Pauline. And further down, the word “heirloom,” written in cursive, regally unspools across a sign. It signals the Milton ...

All apples are not alike, as any apple-phile will tell you, and the deeper you fall under the spell of heirloom apple varieties, which number in the hundreds, the more you will hunger to try them.

For colder regions, zones 3 through 6, varieties such as McIntosh, Haralson, or Honeycrisp are the best heirloom apple trees to grow because of their cold hardiness and higher chilling hour ...

Apples are the most accommodating and long lived of fruit trees, and they cope with our wet climate quite well. There are ...