Some popular spur type varieties include Delicious, MacIntosh, Winesap, Empire, Starkspur and many others. The other type of apple tree is tip bearing, also called non-spur or terminal bearers.

If you save the seeds from a gorgeous Empire apple and grow trees from them, you won’t end up with Empire apples: you’ll get the fruit that the rootstock was meant to bear.

EMPIRE, MICH. -- Elderly apple trees are scattered throughout Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, from the mainland to the Manitou Islands, dropping their fruit every fall like little notes ...

Empire apples from New York are especially hard hit; ... a March warming spree that prompted trees to bud early, followed by an April cold snap that killed off apple blossoms.

If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what about 200 a day for five decades? For Roger Way, a world-renowned apple expert and breeder, it earned him 100 years. He died at that age June 2 in ...

Macintosh, Red Delicious, Cortlands, Empire, Jonagold, Granny Smith and Ida Reds are all ripe for the picking at $14.95 a half-bushel. Drive in, pick a tree (there are 30,000 there), spread your ...

It provides a vanguard to the back lands, where Courtland and Empire apple trees are tactically aligned and organically grown. But van Roestenberg has gone the extra step.

There's nothing more appealing than plucking fresh apples right off your own tree. But to grow and care for an apple tree isn't always as simple as sticking a seed in the ground and waiting for ...

A relative whippersnapper in the apple world, the homegrown Empire was concocted by Cornell’s Agricultural Experiment Station and made its debut in 1966. It’s sweeter than tart, with an ...

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