STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. IS^" 



THE LARGEST APPLE TREE IN NEW ENGLAND. 



The largest apple tree in New England, and probably in the world, 

 is in the northwestern part of Cheshire, Conn., standing in Mr. 

 Delos Hotchkiss's dooryard. Its age can be traced by a family 

 tradition to one hundred and forty years at least, and it may be 

 twenty or twenty-five j-ears older. It is at the present time of 

 symmetrical shape ; the trunk is nearly round, without a scar or 

 blemish on it ; there are eight large branches ; five of them have 

 been in the habit of bearing one year and the remaining three the 

 next. 



Mr. Hotchkiss has gathered in one year from the five branches 

 eighty-five bushels of fruit, and his predecessor had harvested a crop 

 of 110 bushels from the same five branches. By careful measure- 

 ment, circumference of the trunk one foot above the ground, above 

 all enlargements of the roots, is thirteen feet eight inches. The 

 girth of the largest single limb is six feet eight inches. The height 

 of the tree has been carefully measured and found to be sixty feet^ 

 and the spread of the branches as the apples fall is 100 feet, or six 

 rods. 



The fruit is rather small, sweet and of moderate excellence. 



