11.   I have, courtesy of friends, a couple of their limber twig trees in my yard but I thought the old sweet apple variety had disappeared.

12.   It adjoins a picture-perfect kitchen garden furnished with crooked old apple trees and a pair of herbaceous borders.

13.   John will look down on the barn and an old apple tree that were part of his growing-up landscape.

14.   So, were the old apples better?

15.   So his family moved from a five-bedroom modern house in Nashua to a small home on the fringes of an old apple orchard in Hollis.

16.   The old apple tree was in desperate need of pruning.

17.   Tired of the same old apple cake?

18.   Turn around and look for the old apple tree, broken in a recent snowstorm, the last survivor of a pre-Revolutionary orchard.

19.   When I lived in an apartment with a balcony, friends used to admire the vine I had growing there each summer in an old apple crate.

20.   Warehouses must be more selective in the fruit they pack, others said, and perhaps the time has come for regulated expiration dates on old apples.