The Jonathan Fisher House will host special tours of the orchard on the historic property during regular visitor hours on Saturday, July 12, from 1-4 p.m.

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The explosion of crisp, commercial apple varieties in the last century doomed many other breeds into obscurity. But in a field in Kent in the UK, some of them live on. A few miles from the sea in ...

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It’s dry but with an unmistakable apple presence—crisp, simple, and darned good. “Some apples are made to blend,” he says, “but others, like the Golden Russet and the Baldwin, also make a good single.

The Roxbury russet, named for a Boston neighborhood, is the earliest known American apple variety, and is traced to 1635, the year Blaxton left for Rhode Island.

But he has turned the small space into an apple lover's paradise. The apple trees are miniature, but the results are huge. "More than 30 years ago, I started with a few miniature trees.