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Baldwin in passing the woodpecker tree when a hoy was attracted 

 by its tempting red apples, and years .afterward took some of the 

 scions from the tree to a public nursery for propagation, from 

 which circumstance they received his name. The original tree 

 was destroyed in a violent gale in September, 1815." 



There are still further traditions regarding the discovery of the 

 tree, but all agree on the fact that it was brought into promi- 

 nence by Colonel Baldwin. Of recent years the Rumford His- 

 torical Association of Woburn has erected a granite shaft on the 

 spot where the Baldwin was discovered. 



' Northern Spy. The Spy originated on the farm of Heman 

 Chapin in the town of East Bloomfield, where he settled about 

 the year 1800. From Connecticut apple seeds he raised his trees, 

 which were grafted to standard varieties, and in this orchard the 

 Northern Spy originated. Ellwanger and Barry, nurserymen of 

 Rochester, procured buds, and through them the apple was first 

 disseminated. 



King of Tompkins County. The Tompkins County King origi- 

 nated in the orchard of Mr. Harrison in Essex County, Xew 

 Jersey, and was named by Mr. Letts the King apple. Mr. Letts 

 moved to Tompkins County in the year 1800, and in 1806 pro- 

 cured some scions from his favorite tree, a number of which he 

 set for Jacob Wycoff of Jacksonville, town of L'lysses, and the 

 remainder for himself. Those he set for himself died within the 

 year, as did also the original tree in Xew Jersey. Only one of 

 the scions set for Mr. Wycoff lived, and thus one graft was left 

 to fill the world with one of the most beautiful and best apples 

 known. 



Rhode Island Greening. The locality of the origin of the 

 Rhode Island Greening is considerably disputed, but the best 

 evidence indicates that it originated in the state of Rhode Island, 

 in the vicinity of Newport, where in olden times a tavern-keeper 

 by the name of Green raised apple trees from seed. Scions of 

 one of the trees that produced a particularly good apple were 

 in such demand by guests at the tavern that the tree died from 

 exhaustion. Another Greening tree, which is supposed by some 

 to be the original tree, still stands in the town of Foster at Mt. 

 Hygeia. It has borne fruit uninterruptedly until within the last 



