History and Development of the Fruit Industry 7 



extract from Mr. Stanger is taken from the Report of 

 the Colorado State Board of Horticulture for 1903: 



"In the early spring of 1862, Henry Lee, of Denver, 

 sent from Iowa City to his brother, William Lee, then, 

 as now, living on his farm in Jefferson County, four miles 



FIG. 1. An Elberta Peach Orchard, near Ogden, Utah. 



east of Golden, 125 apple, peach, pear and plum stock; 

 they came to Denver by express, and cost Mr. Lee $30. 

 This nursery stock was planted on a little island in the 

 Clear Creek bottoms, the spring they were sent. March 

 24, 1864, William Lee arrived in Denver with a mule 

 team, bringing 6000 one- and two-year-old apple stocks, 

 also 500 stocks each of peach, pear, plum and cherry, 

 which he planted in a nursery on his island farm; then 

 no one thought of planting anything on the uplands. 



"May 27, 1864, a great flood in Clear Creek destroyed 

 this nursery, and also all that was left of the 125 trees 



