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Show Hlntory of Baldwin Apple. 1 he l 'epa-rlmcnt of Agriculture nays I lint Moon after 17 III the I'.alduin cu nic up as a chance ici'dlln;; on the farm of John I'.all Wilmington, near Lowell, Mass., and for about forty years afterward lis cuHlvallon was conllneil to that lin Hal'- neighborhood. neighbor-hood. 1 ! cut ually Iho farm ciiuii' Into the possession of a Mr. I'.iitlor, who gave 11 pple the name Woodpecker or 1'ecKiir, ami It was also called I'.ut-ters. I'.ut-ters. 1 leacon Samuel Thompson, a surveyor of W'nlburn, brought It to Iho intention of Colonel I'.aldwln of the same town, by whom lt was propagated prop-agated and more widely Introduced In eastern Massachusetts as early as 17SI. From Colonel J'.alduln's Interest In-terest In the vnrli-ly It came In bo called the paldwln. In 1SI7 the original orig-inal tree was still alive, but 11 perished per-ished between 1SI7 and 1S.'!L!. A mono-meat mono-meat to the I'.alduin apple now marks t Ik- location. |