By Dene Moore/Maclean's Magazine

For a brief period about five years ago, there were fewer homegrown apples for sale on Canadian grocery-store shelves than there were melons. They’ve since edged back ahead of melons, but, with the exotic array of fruit available in the grocery aisle,  Malus domestica remains second banana to, well, bananas. Apple sales have been stagnating.

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