Ashland Massachusetts Apple Orchard 1856
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009The following is from an 1857 Book…
Statement of Charles Twitchell.
“My orchard contains thirty trees. I purchased my farm in the fall of 1836, and this orchard was then in a very bad condition. By its appearance, it had run wild for years. The tops were very thick, and the ends of most of the limbs were dead. In the spring of 1837, I gave it a good faithful trimming, taking off nearly a third of the tops. I then scraped the trees, ploughed the ground and planted it with potatoes. By keeping the ground ploughed and trees trimmed, they soon became healthy. I then grafted them, and in three years they commenced bearing, and have yielded handsome fruit ever since, and are still in a healthy. flourishing condition, and most of the trees were full of fruit this year”
ASHLAND, Massachusetts
Sept. 17. 1856.
