These are no ordinary apples! They are growing in the middle of a cedar bush just 50 feet from a swamp in conditions that are very unfavorable for an apple tree.
I have no idea how the tree ended up here! I imagine a deer or bird swallowed an apple seed and deposited that seed here, which overcame adversity to grow into this tree.
If they manage to grow there they are determined & for a strange unknown reason far better than our miserable apples growing in much better conditions!