http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/heirloom-apple-trees/ Featuring Vegetable Gardening Tips, Organic Growing Techniques, and Unique Plants for the Backyard Gardener Fri, 16 May 2008 03:42:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/heirloom-apple-trees/#comment-58273 Lino's Antique Lighting Tips Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:05:17 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/heirloom-apple-trees/#comment-58273 I have never thought of collecting antique apple trees. This is kind of unusual for me. Does the age have anything to do with the trees? I have never thought of collecting antique apple trees. This is kind of unusual for me. Does the age have anything to do with the trees?

]]> http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/heirloom-apple-trees/#comment-23490 Tony Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:12:24 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/heirloom-apple-trees/#comment-23490 Kenny, Thanks for the post about Milam Apples located at Urban Homestead which has a web site at http://www.oldvaapples.com/. I also located another Apple Grafter at Oldapple@bighorsecreekfarm.com. Who is in N.C. I have printed the info at both sites & have given them to my Friend. The Milam Apple was a popular Apple in the Mtns of Eastern Ky in the Early 1900's. Kenny,
Thanks for the post about Milam Apples located at Urban Homestead which has a web site at
http://www.oldvaapples.com/.
I also located another Apple Grafter at Oldapple@bighorsecreekfarm.com. Who is in N.C.
I have printed the info at both sites & have given them to my Friend.
The Milam Apple was a popular Apple in the Mtns of Eastern Ky in the Early 1900’s.

]]> http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/heirloom-apple-trees/#comment-23386 Kenny Point Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:51:56 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/heirloom-apple-trees/#comment-23386 Tony, I had never heard of that one but it seems like an interesting antique apple variety and is described on the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/shen/naturescience/apple_tree.htm" rel="nofollow">National Park Service's website</a>: "It appears that the only surviving variety is the Milam apple, named after the Milam family of Madison County. It is believed that the Milam apple was developed in an orchard near the present day location of Milam Gap in the park at milepost 53 along Skyline Drive. Other previously thought extinct local varieties may still be growing in the hollows and on the mountain sides of Shenandoah National Park." The Milam heirloom apple is listed for sale on the <a href="http://www.oldvaapples.com/descriptions.htm" rel="nofollow">Urban Homestead</a> website. Tony, I had never heard of that one but it seems like an interesting antique apple variety and is described on the National Park Service’s website: “It appears that the only surviving variety is the Milam apple, named after the Milam family of Madison County. It is believed that the Milam apple was developed in an orchard near the present day location of Milam Gap in the park at milepost 53 along Skyline Drive. Other previously thought extinct local varieties may still be growing in the hollows and on the mountain sides of Shenandoah National Park.” The Milam heirloom apple is listed for sale on the Urban Homestead website.

]]> http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/heirloom-apple-trees/#comment-23378 Tony Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:50:11 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/heirloom-apple-trees/#comment-23378 Looking for Milam Apple tree Looking for Milam Apple tree

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