Volume 2 Number 4 Article 6 Pages: 110-112
Year 1947 Month 11
Title: The Baldwin Apple, 1740 to the Present
Author: J.H. Waring
Citation
Abstract:
The Baldwin cIon is fully 200 years
old.
S. A. Beach, in The Apples of New
York, gives as its origin a farm in Wilmington,
near Lowell, Massachusetts "soon
after 1740;" Its dissemination and popularity
did not come at once, but William
Kenrick wrote of it in 1833: "No
apple in the vicinity of Boston is so popular
as this at the present day." F. C.
Bradford, in his Master's thesis on Maine
Apple Varieties, placed Baldwin as the
leading commercial variety 0 f Maine
from 1850 through 1910. This leadership
was held until 1933, but the following
severe winter killed or severely injured
some two-thirds of the Baldwin trees in
Maine orchards and gave impetus to a decline
that had already set in and has continued
since.
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