Apple detectives from the Home Orchard Society in Oregon City figure out what kinds of apples grow on trees. When they found an aging man near Yoncalla, Oregon with the largest collection of apple varieties in the world, they took on the massive task of trying to preserve a living cutting from every one of his 4,500 trees.
This story originally aired on Nov. 7, 2013.
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