Apple, 'Baldwin'

A dessert apple for winter harvesting, in season November-March. Large, roundish-conic fruit; skin light yellow blushed and mottled with bright red; flesh yellowish, very firm, crisp, juicy, agreeably subacid, sprightly; quality very good for dessert and culinary uses. This is a very old variety that is vigorous and productive, with an upright-spreading form. Originated near Lowell, Massachusetts around 1740. Also known as: 'Calville Butter', 'Felch', 'Late Baldwin', 'Pecker', 'Red Baldwin's Pippin', 'Steele's Red Winter', and 'Woodpecker'