Links to apple sites

• Apples & More
  This site from the University of Illinois Extension Service has a wealth of general information about apples.

• All About Apples
  All About Apples has an extensive listing of apple orchards around the world, recipes, photos and articles.

• Monticello's South Orchard
  Between 1769 and 1814 Thomas Jefferson planted as many as 1,031 fruit trees in his South Orchard at Monticello. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation is in the process of restoring the orchard.

He who knows the apple tree also knows its region. The landscape is his in every blessed year; he sees the chariots of the months come down from the distances and pass by him into the twilights. Clouds are his and the repeating shadows on the hills. The morning when the blossoms are laden with the fragrance of the night, high noon when the bees are busy, the gloaming when the birds drop into the boughs, these are his by divine right. The smell of new-ploughed fields is his, with the urgent promise in them. Seed time and harvest, as old as the procreant earth and as new as the latest sunrise, are his to conjure. The verities are his for the asking, the strong things of cultivated fields and of wild places. And mastery is his, that comes of the amelioration of the land and the education of the tree. All these are everyman's, and yet they are his alone.

Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Apple Tree (1922)