Apple lore says that the farmer who found it named it after his wife, Pauline. And further down, the word “heirloom,” written in cursive, regally unspools across a sign. It signals the Milton ...

All apples are not alike, as any apple-phile will tell you, and the deeper you fall under the spell of heirloom apple varieties, which number in the hundreds, the more you will hunger to try them.