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Article: LITTLE APPLE TREES DWARF AND COMPACT VARIETIES MAKE APPLE TREES SUITABLE FOR JUST ABOUT ANY GARDEN.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
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Johnny Appleseed may not have made it all the way to Washington, but you would never know it. Apples are big business in this state, and ancient apple trees can be found anywhere from old homesteads to an empty lot down the street.
Today's home gardens are decidedly smaller than the acreage of the past, but that doesn't mean you can't have two or three apple trees out back (or front).
Apple trees as living fences, apple trees as pillars, apple trees that look just like the big ones but are much, much smaller - you get landscape features and fruit, too.
Apple varieties that are grafted onto dwarf rootstock may grow up to 15 feet high. But ...