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tion^ were set out two years before Jacques, a younger brother of Francis 

 Navarre, erected his cabin. In the chimney of the old house was a stone 

 marked 1800, indicating the year when it was built. This correctly places 

 these trees in the second epoch. They measure seven feet six inches and six 

 feet four inches respectively. 



On the Joseph Robert farm, just below the Canada Southern depot, stand 

 six pear trees and four apple trees, set out about 1803. The pear trees meas- 

 ure fi'om five feet six inches to seven feet in circumference. The apple trees 

 measure six feet, seven feet, six feet seven inches, and nine feet two inches 

 respectively. 



The Labadie orchard has been substantially destroyed by the encroaching 

 waters of Lake Erie. 



THE THIED EPOCH. 



Among the trees planted in the third epoch, — that is, after the war of 

 1812, on the return of the fugitives to their old homes and the ingress of 

 settlers, — were those now standing in Judge Warner Wing's garden and I. 

 E. Ilgenfritz's lot, just opposite, planted in 1816 by Col. Anderson, who 

 about that time built his store, Avhich is now standing just opposite Judge 

 Wing's residence. These pear trees were brought from the Labadie farm, 

 now submerged. It is supposed the large pear tree in Judge T. E. Wing's 

 yard was planted about the same time, as that at Colonel Anderson's resi- 

 dence after the war ; but it may have been planted by him before the war, as 

 he was a resident here at that time. In the same epoch may be classed the 

 large pear trees on the old Downing place. So far as size is concerned, they 

 would indicate an older life, as they measure eight feet four inches and six 

 feet eight inches, but as they were set out by Stephen Downing, it must have 

 been after the war. They have been constant and full bearers. Some eight- 

 een or twenty years ago they seemed to be dying, but by a mere accident 

 were saved, as it is supposed. Mr. Downing's people were in the habit of 

 making ice cream frequently under them, and the salt used in making it was 

 thrown out on the ground; this salt seems to have renewed their life, as they 

 immediately became vigorous. On the Ives place are two pear trees belong- 

 ing to the same epoch, set out by Jaques La Salle. They measure six feet 

 six inches and six feet four inches respectively. Belonging to the same epoch 

 were the trees set out on the Caldwell farm, some four miles up the river; 

 also the tree in Mrs. Dr. Conant's yard, and the two on the farm of L. La 

 Fountain, Esq. 



THE FOUKTH EPOCH. 



Among those of the fourth epoch is the tree in the Macomb Street House 

 yard, those in the yards of Victor Vincent, Gen. Spalding and many others 

 in different parts of the city. The average size of them is about five and one- 

 half feet in circumference. They are vigorous and prolific bearers. One set 

 out by Thomas Clark, Esq., in 1837, needs particular mention as being a 

 grafted tree. It was procured from Norris Wadsworth, who then owned the 

 Ives place. It was grafted from cions obtained in Connecticut. It bore 

 the next year after it was set out and has borne every year since. It is called 

 the Early Catharine and ripens in early August. 



