TODAY IN THE ORCHARD
Tolamn Sweet, New Sharon, Maine
I collected about two dozen apples to use as props for my talk tomorrow in Deer Isle. Four of them are the classic cultivars typically found on the oldest farms in central and southern Maine. They are Blue Pearmain, Tolman Sweet, Roxbury Russet and Yellow Bellflower. The other apples are all cultivars that would now be extinct were it not for the work of the Maine Heritage Orchard.