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Description: Baldwin apples on the tree. Synonyms: American Baldwin, Baldwin Rosenapfel, Baldwin's Apfel, Baldwin's Roter Pepping, Baldwin's rother Pepping, Baldwin's Rother Pippin, Beldvin, Butter's, Butter's Woodpecker, Butters, Butters' Red Baldwin, Calville Butter, Calville Buttner, Felch, Late Baldwin, Pecker, Pepin Rouge de Baldwin, Peppin rouge de Baldwin, Red Baldwin, Red Baldwin Pippin, Red Baldwin's Pippin, Stecle's Red Winter, Steele's Red Winter, Woodpecker NFC's description of the apple is: "Triploid. A chance seedling found on the farm of John Ball, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A. in about 1740. Introduced by Colonel Baldwin in about 1780. Fruits are coarse textured and juicy but lack flavour. It was once an important commercial variety in the U.S.A."
Title: Baldwin on tree, National Fruit Collection (acc. 1921-086)
Credit: http://www.nationalfruitcollection.org.uk/full2.php?varid=306&&acc=1921086&&fruit=apple
Author: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale.
Usage Terms: Open Government License 2
License: OGL 2
License Link: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2
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