The artist and writer Eric Sloane tells a true story in his 1965 book "A Reverence for Wood" about an apple tree that perpetuates itself for more than 200 years. Growing on a hillside, it topples ...

Its nearly 200 illustrations really are worth bragging about, ... Instead, orchardists cut a twig from an existing tree and graft it onto rootstock, growing a genetically identical apple tree.

Nabil Ali, the artist-in-residence at Cambridge University 's Botanic Garden, has made ink from a clone of Newton's apple tree, which fell during Storm Eunice last year.

Illustration by Nicholas Konrad; Source photographs and video from Getty. Save this ... Soon the apple trees will go quiet, drop their leaves, and enter a state of deep rest.