Yes many years before they offered either apple or were likely available to be offerred i was growing my apple. They could be seedlings of my apple but i dont think so i think there is a wild apple as i mentioned with highly dominant genetics. They both likely did what they said gathered some wild seedling apples. They very much liked them when they tried them and grew their own version of a genetically different crabapple. A gentleman gathered wild apples at one point many years ago from the Michigan woods. He used the apples for his needs and made money from the seeds and seedlings he sold. My crabapple and other apples came from the best wild apples they had in those forests. If your going to start an apple that can survive in Kansas nothing but wild seed will do the tree must be ultra hardy. Those seedlings were never sprayed once where they come from. Naturally the seedlings of those wild apples are genetically superior to anything else just like a wild callery pear will ultimately win dominance. This world the rules are survival of the fittest unfortunately and that seedling did not die of the diseases this world has.New Apple Seedling Varieties
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