Broken branches and limbs on apple trees can sometimes be repaired. A broken branch that is still partly attached can be reattached with grafting tape, and eventually the tree will mend itself.

There’s a few bad apples that are giving law enforcement a terrible name.—Robert O’Brien, the national-security adviser An apple tree in bloom is a thing of majesty: armlike branches, held ...

Yoshimoto Kudo, 85, who cultivates around 150 trees in his 4,000 square metre (1 acre) orchard, said many branches were broken, and the trunks of some trees 50 to 60 years old even snapped.