APPLES HAVE ALWAYS SUSTAINED THE NUTMEG STATE 7 SPORTS FINAL Edition

The number of varieties was constantly increasing, because frugal farmers often would plant apple seeds to produce new trees, and apples do not grow true to seed -- that is, the seed of an apple will not necessarily germinate and grow into a tree producing the exact same apple variety. The Colonial...

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Published inThe Hartford courant
Main Authors Grant, Steve, COURANT STAFF WRITER, Steve Grant can be reached via e-mail at grant@courant.com
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hartford, Conn Tribune Publishing Company, LLC 06.10.2002
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Bishop, Jonathan
Favretti, Rudy
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Summary:The number of varieties was constantly increasing, because frugal farmers often would plant apple seeds to produce new trees, and apples do not grow true to seed -- that is, the seed of an apple will not necessarily germinate and grow into a tree producing the exact same apple variety. The Colonial period therefore produced innumerable new apple varieties, some of them good, some of them bad. "Black Gilliflower, Roxbury Russet and Westfield Seek-No-Further were three of the most commonly grown apples in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. All were distributed from Connecticut," [Hedrick] wrote. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as transportation and storage technology improved, larger commercial apple orchards began to appear in Connecticut, [Rudy J. Favretti] said. Many of Connecticut's best- known orchards date from this period, including Lyman Orchards in Middlefield and Bishop's Orchards in Guilford.
ISSN:1047-4153