Year Around Tree Study: Apple Tree
“Like a friend is a tree, in that it needs to be known season after season and year after year in order to be truly appreciated. A person who has not had an intimate, friendly acquaintance with some special tree has missed something from life.”Anna Botsford Comstock, A Study of a Tree
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| From Nature Portfolio |
“This lesson should begin with the apple blossom in the spring and should continue, with occasional observations, until the apples are well grown.”
-Handbook of Nature Study
“A visit to a large, well-grown orchard in spring or autumn will aid in making this work interesting. Any apple tree near at hand may be used for the lesson.”
-Handbook of Nature Study, page 664
Autumn
We noticed that the Apple tree's leaves did not change color as many of the tree's leaves have. They go from green to brown, before falling off the tree. So far, however, most of the tree is still full of leaves and lush green. We picked as many apples off the tree this year as we could handle, making into pies, baked apples, applesauce and other goodies. We plan to can the applesauce next year.
Winter
The apple tree was part of our general winter tree study.
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