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[Zeugitai <zeugitai@gmail.com>]

The local nurseryman warned me that apples and cedars "co-host." 
I nodded and took it to mean that they harbor mutually antagonistic
organisms, but that was just my guess. I have one old cedar tree in
front by the drainage ditch. It's always cut down to twenty feet by the
power company people, but has a twenty foot spread to it.  It
might as well be a bird hotel for all the birds living in it: brown
thrasher, mockingbird, sparrows, blackbirds, mourning doves.... But I
have put in young apple trees all around the house varying from a
minimum of 40 feet away going back to a hundred feet.  I am now
seeing small orange blotches on the leaves of several closer trees and
was informed that this is due to the cedar. My question is whether the
cedar must go for the apples' sake, or whether pruning it back would
help.  And what's the cure for the blotches?  Thanks