Excerpt from History of the Town of Fitchburg, Massachusetts: Comprising Also a History of Lunenburg, From Its First Settlement to the Year 1764 The soil is very broken, and much labor is required to subdue it thoroughly. When once put into a good state of cultivation, it has produced heavy crops of potatoes, and the various kinds of grain com mon to this section of the country. Wheat has been, and is still cul tirsted with considerable success. The town abounds in good pastur age lands, which, in consequence of the moist ...
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Excerpt from History of the Town of Fitchburg, Massachusetts: Comprising Also a History of Lunenburg, From Its First Settlement to the Year 1764 The soil is very broken, and much labor is required to subdue it thoroughly. When once put into a good state of cultivation, it has produced heavy crops of potatoes, and the various kinds of grain com mon to this section of the country. Wheat has been, and is still cul tirsted with considerable success. The town abounds in good pastur age lands, which, in consequence of the moist soil, seldom fail. Nearly the whole of the township was originally covered with a heavy growth of pine, which, being cut off, has given place to oak of dif ferent kinds, beech, chestnut, rock-maple, birch, ash, ltc. Walnut was formerly abundant, but now it is not very common. A strange neglect has prevailed in regard to the cultivation of trees for shade and ornament, and the beautiful and easily cultivated fruit trees of New England. Apples are common, and a few cherries may be seen; but peaches, rareripes, pears, grapes, plums, apricots, nec turiaca, strawberries, &c., which might be produced in abundrmce, and with but little care and expense, are almost wholly strangers among us. Not a little beauty would be added to the village, were its streets ornamented with the majestic elm; and not a little would be added to the comfort of the citizens, were their grounds plentifully stocked with the wholesome and delicious fruits of summer and autumn. Rev. Peter Whitney, in his valuable history of Worcester County, remarks thus of Fitchburg This is a very hilly and uneven, but fertile town. The hills are larg high and steep; however, on them there is not broken, poor and waste land. In general, the soil is excellent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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