Our young trees in the new orchard were just one year old trees or whips, and many people laughed and some said those Swartz Bros. will be gray haired old men before they see any apples. If we live to be a hundred years old, it’s easy done to set out a one year apple tree in Wisconsin when you’re 95 years old and get drunk on the cider at 100 years old, squeezed from the apples grown on this one year old tree.
—Peter C. Swartz, letter to Frederic Cranefield, editor, Wisconsin Horticulture vol. 16, no. 11 (1926)
via: History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
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