Joseph Cone and Robert Cone return home from Europe

Also today, a peach measuring over 9” in circumference was picked from a tree on the property of George M. Bartholomew on Prospect Street.  The tree had been planted as a seedling in 1879, and it bore fruit for the first time in 1883.  This year, however, the yield “is something wonderful, not only in quantity, but for its excellence.  The peaches are of large size, of a handsome yellow tinged with red, and most delicious to the taste.”

Unattributed.  “Hartford and vicinity,” Hartford Daily Courant, October 1, 1884, page 2.