I've received my fruit trees from St. Lawrence Nurseries over the last couple years. Also other plants/shrubs too. I've been very happy with the cultivars and service.

Love to see the different apples too, especially the Old Time varieties. Is the 1st apple in the picture a Wolf River?

My great Uncle worked for the Forestry Dept in the 50's and we have many many apples growing wild and hybrids too that he experimented with on the farm - in the pastures. He was known for practicing grafting, and we had many trees that had apples & pears on the same trees in the pastures when I was a kid. Most of the pear trees have died off - but I come across one every now and again in the thickets.

last year, I came across a fallen apple that was bigger than a large softball. It wasblush/striped - and weighed well over a pound.Its fruit was meally though. My Dad said that the neighbor had "poundsweets" that grew nearby (gone now) and it looked like one of them. Sorry to say though that I never found which tree or where dropped the huge apple came from, but I keep looking for it.

It would be fun to catalog what the deer like. We have some apple trees that drop tons of apples that the deer never ever touch - and others that an apple never rots on the ground. some that are dropping mostly now. Others hang on the trees until the bitter of winter before they fall.

Good luck with your project. Are you going to attempt to ID the strains?

FH