I had a fun week. My neighbors son is a Botanist with Missouri Botanical Gardens and Cornell University was home this week and he asked me to take him to our friends apple farm a few miles north of us for he could take some cuttings from a few of the 750 trees (35 varieties) on 3 1/2 acres. The trees are semi-dwarf planted 8 foot apart in 10 foot rows pruned down to 7 feet or less…
