Some said that it was an apple tree cursed by a mendicant witch who had once taken an apple from it and been reprimanded by its owner for doing so. She is then supposed to have said that it would never bear fruit again. In the morning I hurried to be up with the sun and, when I reached the spot, they pointed out the said tree, since I had expressed my great desire to see it. I found that it was nothing more than an ‘Ulmus vulgaris’ [Wych Elm] – sure proof that ‘Ulmus’ does not normally grow in these parts.