CHAPTER V 



FRUITS AND FRUIT GROWING 



N page 455 of Barbour's "Historical Col- 

 lection," printed in 1836, is this note: 

 "There is an apple tree now standing on 

 the farm of Mr. Solomon Marsh in 

 Litchfield, supposed to be about 116 

 years old, and is now in a vigorous state. Its trunk, 

 two feet from the ground, measures eleven feet five 

 inches in circumference. The circumference of its 

 branches is nearly eleven rods in extent. It bore in 

 1835 o^^ hundred bushels of apples of a fine quality." 



As Litchfield was sold for settlement in 17 18, this 

 apple tree, if the above record is accurate, must have 

 been about the first thing planted by the first man who 

 settled in the town. However that may be, its great 

 size and vigor are suflicient warrant for the statement 



