Apple trees _are_ good candidates for starting from seeds. Especially because the kind you eat often have poor adaptability to a fresh, harsh, environment. So

Apple trees _are_ good candidates for starting from seeds. Especially because the kind you eat often have poor adaptability to a fresh, harsh, environment. So you start with strong, healthy, local seeds, let them grow a bit, and graft the kind you want to eat after 3 years. Same thing for cherries, pears, peaches, and others. This is also used for growing grapes in France and about everywhere in the world : roots and trunks are east american because of their resilience to a particularly nasty pest, but the right variety of grape is grafted on it. So we still use the original variety to make wine ! That’s also why almost every vineyard is at most 200 years old, despite the fact that wine was already there under the earliest roman empire.