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The labors of Dr. Vaughn in this direction are so well set forth 

 in the address of Dr. Holmes, before referred to, and so well 

 remembered in the county of Kennebec, to which his benificence 

 was chiefly confined, that it is hardly necessary to dwell upon 

 them. Followed as they were by the disinterested efforts of Dr. 

 Holmes himself, and many others, they years ago gave to that 

 county a just pre-eminence as a fruit growing region,* and led to 

 the organization of the old " Maine Pomological and Horticultural 

 Society." 



Very early in the century, Ephraim Goodale established a regu- 

 lar nursery for the propagation of trees, undoubtedly the first one 

 in the State, in the present town of Orrington ; and he issued a 

 catalogue, meagre indeed in comparison with the voluminous and 

 elegant nursery catalogues of the present day, but denoting great 

 enterprise in the time and under the circumstances of its promul- 

 gation."}" An exact /(zc simile of this circular or catalogue is pre- 

 sented herewith. 



In 1821 we find him as "Judge Goodale of Orrington," (the 

 recipient of well-deserved public confidence,) a contributor and 

 liberal benefactor to the Penobscot Agricultural Society at its first 

 exhibition. (Agricultural Report 1856, p. 15.) 



It is worthy of remark that among the best contributions of 

 fruit at our recent exhibition, was that of Mr. C. D. Chapman of 

 Orrington, who occupies the old " Goodale farm." 



Contemporaneously with the labors of Vaughn and Ephraim 

 Goodale, or a little earlier, General Knox, at his homestead in 

 Thomaston, was giving considerable attention to fruit culture. 



* Dr. Holmes proceeds to say, speaking of Vaughn and his labors, — "and to this cause 

 mnst we attribute the fact that there are more good varieties of apples to be found in 

 Kennebec than inmost other sections of Maine. I would not say this boastfully; for 

 when we consider the rare opportunity that people in this neighborhood have had for 

 enriching their grounds with these choice varieties, it is lamentable that ten times more 

 had not been done." 



t The Hon. S. L Goodale, in a letter written last summer, in answer to enquiries, 

 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 Bucks- 

 "town, 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 89,) 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, begun the culture of fruit, — 

 " bringing trees from their home nurseries in Massachusetts. My father was compelled 

 •• by loss of health to leave soon after, but his brother continued for many years to raise 

 " trees to sell and fruit for market." 



