In this Oct. 29, 2019, photo, amateur botanist E.J. Brandt, of The Lost Apple Project, examines apples he picked from a tree in an orchard near Troy, Idaho. Brandt and fellow botanist David Benscoter have rediscovered at least 13 long-lost apple varieties in homestead orchards, remote canyons and windswept fields in eastern Washington and northern Idaho that had previously been thought to be extinct. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) (Ted S.