I've had experience grafting pear to hawthorn, with good results. The native Crataegus douglasii makes a very good semi-dwarf stock. Just be sure not to disturb the roots, which can make it sucker. Seems like it would be a short step to grafting apples on it, if you used an interstem of Winter Banana, which is graft compatible with pears. That is, you can graft pear on apple with a Winter Banana interstem, so why not apple on hawthorn with WB interstem?
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