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Full Inventory Updated! All Fruit Trees & Rootstocks Now Online – Reserve Yours Now for Spring 2024 Shipping While the Selection Is Biggest; Many Scions Now Listed Too!Spring 2025 tree inventory is also online.
Why is it best to order directly from our web site?
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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.
Full Inventory Updated! All Fruit Trees & Rootstocks Now Online – Reserve Yours Now for Spring 2024 Shipping While the Selection Is Biggest; Many Scions Now Listed Too!
September 18, 2023 | Spring 2025 tree inventory is also online.
Everything Is Sold Out for Spring 2023 – Come Back in July for Spring 2024 Trees!
May 8, 2023 | You can sign up to be notified when Spring 2024 inventory is verified and updated online.
Fruit Tree Clearance Extended: 35% Off All Trees Through Friday, May 5, at 2:00 PM. Enter Code CLEAR35. Also Get Trees for Only $7.50 Each in Our Grab Bags.
April 27, 2023 | Time to plant – all trees ship now! Everything will be sold out soon. Next chance is Spring 2024!
Featured Products
A few things we're loving right now...
Honeycrisp Apple on G.935
The rock-star, cold-hardy apple from Minnesota.
Intrepid Peach on BY520-9. Nematode Resistant Peach
A late-blooming, extremely cold-hardy, freestone peach.
Porter's Perfection Apple on G.969
A bittersharp English cider variety.
Danube™ Cherry on Mahaleb
A sweet-tart Morello-type cherry from Hungary.