Baldwin Apple

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Baldwin Apple

Malus spp. Winter. Wilmington, Mass., about 1740. Also called Butters Apple or Woodpecker. Discovered on the Butters Farm by a surveyor planning the Middlesex Canal and noted as a favorite site for local woodpeckers.

By 1850 Baldwin was the standard all-purpose home and commercial variety wherever it was grown. It remained dominant in Maine until the terrible winter of 1934 when tens of thousands of trees perished and McIntosh became king. Large round-conic thick-skinned fruit, almost entirely blushed, mottled and striped with red and deep carmine. Hard crisp juicy yellowish flesh makes excellent eating and cooking. Keeps till spring. Makes top-quality hard cider, blended or alone.

Vigorous adaptable hugely productive long-lived healthy tree. The late renowned entomologist Ron Prokopy described Baldwin as “not practical commercially due to biennialism but the only apple that is both disease and insect resistant.” Blooms early to midseason. Z4. Maine Grown. (Standard: 3–6' bare-root trees; semi-dwarf: 2½–5' bare-root trees)



7204 Baldwin
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7204 A: on standard stock, 1 for $38.50
7204 C: on M111 semi-dwarfing stock, 1 for $38.50
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