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catalogue, meagre indeed in comparison with the voluminous and 

 elegant nursery catalogues of the present day, but denoting great 

 enterprise in tlie time and under the circumstances of its promulga- 

 tion. The Hon. S. L. Goodale, in a letter written in 1873, in 

 answer to inquiries, says : ' I send you herewith the only copy 

 which I remember to have seen of what I suppose to have been the 

 first catalogue of nursery trees issued in Maine. The date is 

 wanting, but it was as long ago as when what is now Orrington 

 was a part of Buckstown, and from other facts I doubt not it was 

 between 1804 and 1812. Ephraim, the eldest of the brothers, 

 and my father, — now living at the age of eighty-nine, — the youngest 

 of a large family, went there and took up farms near each other 

 about the beginning of the century, and at once, or as soon as land 

 was cleared, began the culture of fruit, bringing trees from their 

 home nurseries in Massachusetts. My father was compelled by 

 loss of health to leave, but his brother continued many years to 

 raise trees to sell and fruit for market.' It is a little remarkable 

 that most of the fruits named in this catalogue are still classed 

 among standard varieties. Uvalede's St. Germain, York, Bergamot, 

 Primitive, Monsieur Jean, Windsor, Sucre Vert, English Bergamot, 

 and German Baker, of our modern pear lists are doubtless the same 

 as those mentioned. The others are not so easy to identify. Of 

 the apples named in the old-time catalogue. Bell's Early, Maiden's 

 Blush, Quince, Golden Pippin, Nonsuch, and Pumpkin Sweet are 

 probably identical with the present varieties of the same names. 

 The ' Yellow Geniton ' is now the White Juneating, the ' Stone 

 Sweet ' was doubtless our Stone Pippin. The ' Warren Paisset ' is 

 not easy to identify with any present sort. It may have been the 

 Yellow Bellflower, of which a synonym is the Warren Pippin. It 

 is evident from the concluding paragraph of the little catalogue 

 that this pioneer nurseryman of Maine conducted his business upon 

 correct principles, at least to the extent of keeping his stock care- 

 fully labelled, and cultivating the sorts most congenial to the soil in 

 which they were designed to grow. It is pleasant to learn that 

 'in 1821 he was known as Judge Goodale of Orrington, a contri- 

 butor and liberal benefactor to the Penobscot Agricultural Society 

 at its first exhibition.'" — Prairie Farmer, Nov. 7, 1885. 



