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Show the attention of Colonel Baldwin of the same town, by whom It waa propagated prop-agated and more widely Introduced In eastern Massachusetts as early as 1784. From Colonel Baldwin's Interest In-terest in the variety It came to be called the Baldwin. In 1S17 the original orig-inal tree was stHl alive, but It perished per-ished between 1S17 and 1832. A monument monu-ment to the Baldwin apple now marks the location. - History of Baldwin Apple. The Department of Agriculture, says that soon after 1740 the Baldwin came up as a rhance 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 culled Butters. But-ters. Peaeon Samuel Thompson, a surveyor of Wolbarn, brought it to |