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The process of creating an apple orchard is more complicated than most people believe. It is not as simple as planting the seeds of an apple and seeing the perfect tree grow in a couple of years. Apple seeds are actually genetically diverse not unlike humans. For example we contain genes from both our mother and father who contain genes from their parents and so on. Although children normally have similar features to either of their parents they aren't the exact replica of one of their parents. The same goes for apple seeds. They contain genetic information from two different trees so to plant an apple tree from the seed would provide unexpected results (not unlike how we won't know exactly what our children will look like.) There has been times where new types of apples have been discovered through this process however it is a gamble as most times the results are apples that are too small or too sour. Apple farmers don't want to take the risk of waiting two years for a tree to grow and having a batch of bad apples so they have found a way to plant trees that will have the exact same genetic material as the tree it came from. They take a clipping from the desired tree and plant it. Since the clipping came from the desired tree it will have the exact same genetic material when the new one grows. This is how apple farmers control the type of apples grown in their orchard.
