Show earliest apples grown by the first settlers all of the apples grown before 1750 were seedlings from wild stock asserts a writer in the rural new yorker wild apples probably including I 1 a few selected kinds were known in england before the puritans departed for this country seeds from these trees and perhaps young trees were brought over by the very early settlers before many years apple trees were growing about every home and along fence rows or in vacant lots occasionally sio nally these seedling trees produced fine fruit and when this was the case a supply would be saved for family use and scions would be given away to be used in top graft grafting ing other seedling trees that did not bear good fruit in some cases the demand for scions was so great that the vitality of the original tree was weakened by much cutting and its length of life hie thereby shortened from about 1700 a few selected kinds of apples of real worth began 0 to appear at first these were quite local as there were few means for widespread distribution most of the earliest sorts were given names either after the man who discovered them or for the town or locality where first grown and distributed |