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Show the attention of Colonel Baldwin of the same town, by whom It was propagated prop-agated and more widely Introduced In eastern Massachusetts as early as 1784. From Colonel Baldwin'! Interest In-terest In the variety It came to be called the Baldwin. In 1817 the original orig-inal tree was still alive, but It perished per-ished between 1817 and 1832. A monument monu-ment to the Baldwin apple now marks the location. History of Baldwin Apple. lhe Department of Agriculture tays that soon after 1740 the Baldwin came up as a chance seedling on the farm of John Ball Wilmington, near Lowell, Mass., and for about forty years afterward Its cultivation was confined to that Immediate neighborhood. neighbor-hood. Eventually the farm came Into the possession of a Mr. Butters, who gave the apple the name Woodpecker or Pecker, and It was also called Butters. But-ters. Deacon Samuel Thompson, a surveyor of Wolburn, brought it to mmmmmmmmm w |