. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. BALDWIN BELMONT 17 BALDWIN. Fig. 7. Pecker. Steele's Red Winter. Woodpecker. Baldwin is the standard winter apple of eastern America, and is more largely grown than any other variety of this fruit on the continent. It takes its high rank from several characters, chief of which is adap- tability to a great diversity of soils and cli- mates. Other good qualities are: the fruits keep long; are uniformly large; when well grown, are attractive in color; the quality, while not of the best, is good; and the apples, because of firm texture and thick
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. BALDWIN BELMONT 17 BALDWIN. Fig. 7. Pecker. Steele's Red Winter. Woodpecker. Baldwin is the standard winter apple of eastern America, and is more largely grown than any other variety of this fruit on the continent. It takes its high rank from several characters, chief of which is adap- tability to a great diversity of soils and cli- mates. Other good qualities are: the fruits keep long; are uniformly large; when well grown, are attractive in color; the quality, while not of the best, is good; and the apples, because of firm texture and thick skin, stand handling and shipping well; this fact makes it the standard variety for both home and foreign markets. The trees are vigorous, long-lived, healthy, and remarkably productive, individual trees not infrequently bearing twenty barrels of apples, and the crop is usually uniform. The trees are faulty in bearing biennially, in falling a little below the average of the species in. (XVa) hardiness, and in being susceptible in both fruit and foliage to the apple-scab fungus. Baldwin originated about 1740 as a chance seedling on the farm of John Ball, Wilmington, Massachu- setts. Tree large, very vigorous, upright-spreading; branches stout. Leaves large. Fruit large, round-conic to round- oblong, often faintly ribbed or irregular, uniform in shape ; stem medium to long ; cavity acute, deep, liroad, often furrowed, sometimes compressed, sometimes lipped, often russeted with outspreading rays of russet or green ; calyx small, closed or open, with long lobes, acuminate ; basin abrupt, narrow to wide, often furrowed, corrugated ; skin tough, smooth, light yellow, blushed and mottled with red, striped with deep carmine; dots gray, de- pressed, small and numerous toward the basin, conspicu- ous towards the cavity; calyx-tube conical, short and wide with projection of fleshy pistil point into its base ; stamens basal ; core medium, axile, closed or partly open ; core-line
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