will often grow into trees with fruit similar to that on the parent tree. Two years ago, I received an email from Bob Boyd who grows peaches and nectarines in Tustin, not far from Fountain Valley.

Most fruits have seeds, which make them capable of developing into new plants. A fruit is a matured and ripened ... away from each other and from their parent plant. This is to reduce competition ...

The parent plant ... The best way to eat this fruit is in a marmalade or jelly where you can add lots of sugar to augment the taste. Another attribute of this plant is the cold hardiness ...

Most apple trees are clones, in the sense that branches from existing trees have been grafted onto rootstock in order to produce the same kind of fruit as the parent tree, so when you plant a tree ...