The Baldwin Apple 1740 to the Present
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https://doi.org/10.71318/apom.1947.2.4.110Abstract
The Baldwin clon 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 of 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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