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Spring 2024 Shipping Is Done: Trees, Scions, and Rootstocks Sold Out! You Can Now Shop for Fruit Trees That Will Ship in Spring 2025.Plan your orchard now! Get first crack at the Spring 2025 inventory.
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Learn Trees
See checklists & tutorials and our fruit tree glossary, and find pollination partners for your trees.
Grafting & Budding Fruit Trees
Starter steps for grafting and budding your own fruit trees, including preparation of scionwood and rootstocks.
Cider Apple Classifications
Learn about the apple qualities and categories of most interest to cidermakers, very different than dessert apples.
Fruit Tree Pollination – A Primer
See our intro to pollination of apple, pear, and stone fruit trees, and use our "Pollenizer" to find partners for your trees.
Family Tree
Meet Dr. Jim Cummins, see our home farm in NY, and read Dad's old orchard stories.
About Cummins Nursery
We are a small fruit tree nursery in New York apple country. Since 1994, we have shipped to orchards of all sizes in the Lower 48.
Loading Reefers
It was never the simple job it looked to be – stacking would go well until we had 90% of the load aboard, then things got sticky.
Grandmother's Chickens
When a customer came calling, Grandmother would head for the special pen of young chickens. She had a special chicken-catcher.
News & Events
Catch seasonal updates and the latest sales.
Spring 2024 Shipping Is Done: Trees, Scions, and Rootstocks Sold Out! You Can Now Shop for Fruit Trees That Will Ship in Spring 2025.
May 6, 2024 | Plan your orchard now! Get first crack at the Spring 2025 inventory.
SUPER CIDER SALE: Get 50% Off All Remaining Cider Apple and Crabapple Trees Through May 5, 2024. Enter Code CIDER50.
April 30, 2024 | Last few days of the nursery season! Everything ships now. Scionwoods and rootstocks are sold out for spring 2024.
Clearance: 35% Off All Remaining Trees and Scionwoods Through May 3, 2024. Enter Code CLEAR35. Also Get Our "Grab Bags" of 12 Trees Each for Huge Savings!
April 26, 2024 | All products ship now and will sell out soon!