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Laughlin farm at Beech-Ridge in Scarboro', Cumberland county, 

 altliough the oldest trees now standing there are grafted ones. 

 It was shown to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society many 

 years ago, and was at first supposed to be the Brown Beurre. 



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McLaughlin. 



Subsequently, (about 1842,) I exhibited specimens, in December, 

 which attracted admiration, and scions were also furnished the 

 next spring. It has, I believe, given general satisfaction. At the 

 last meeting of the American Pomological Society, Mr. Carpenter 

 of New York said he was much pleased with it as a thrifty tree and 

 good fruit, keeping into winter. The President assented fully, and 

 said it had been too much overlooked. Messrs. Downing and 

 Barry expressed the same opinion. The trees in Scarboro', stand- 

 ing in a low, uudraincd situation, pretty moist, if not absolutely 

 wet, suffered severely in the winter of 1856-7 ; but the fact that 



