61. Forgetting for a moment that famous land called Eden, the ancient Egyptians planted apple trees and recorded on papyrus the techniques they used. 62. He also has an apple tree called Eddie April, but the fruit is green and sour, with a tough skin. 63. He traveled through frontier America planting apple trees and starting orchards. 64. He yanked a mature climbing hydrangea off a Bayberry wall and used that and that recycled, espaliered apple tree to give the new walls an old look. 65. His favorite apple trees were locked in their annual struggle against a late spring frost. 66. I thought I was hallucinating the first time I heard a noise in the apple tree and saw a fat groundhog up there gnawing on the Winesaps. 67. I am high in an apple tree in the orchard of my childhood. 68. I did not realize that apple trees had so many pest problems, especially in the Northeast. 69. If you want to grow apple trees as ornamentals, they are lovely and produce more than enough fruit for applesauce, apple butter, pies and such. 70. In Ireland a notoriously stingy drunkard named Jack was said to have tricked the Devil into climbing an apple tree, where he was trapped. |