Two trees planted this week signify the Albany County Town of Guilderland’s deep historical roots as celebrations marking the ...

IDEAS In search of the lost apples of New England Once, the fruit came in thousands of varieties. Most of them have vanished or will be gone soon — unless John Bunker can track them down.

Golden Russet (wonderful all-around apple for cider, eating, baking) Esopus Spitzenberg (good eating, cider, high-acid) Dabinett (excellent bittersweet) ...

Some apple varieties are self-fertile, that is, produce fruit when bees deliver pollen from one flower to another on that same tree. Others need a nearby tree of a different variety for its pollen.

Dating to 1849, the Golden Russet is a real New York apple. Everyone has a favorite apple or two. Kids love Red Delicious for their sugary flavor and bright red color. Gourmands crave Granny ...

From Granny Smith and Golden Delicious to Brownlees Russet and Wadhurst Pippin, if you like apples then Paul Barnett is your man. He has 250 varieties available to pick – and astonishingly, they ...

The Egremont Russet, which happens to be my very favorite apple, has a clean, golden skin that gives it a regal quality; it would not look out of place in a still life painting.

A Heritage Apple Orchard is being built in Guilderland to honor the town's agricultural impact on American History.

The Golden Russet, cut open Writing in his wonderful book Apples (1998), Frank Browning describes visiting Georgia in the former Soviet Union to look for the original apple.