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Synonyms. Steele's Bed Winter, Butters, Bed Baldwin, Pecker, Woodpecker, 

 and Felch. The fruit is of good size, roundish, striped with crimson ; in the sun- 

 shine, the apples are often of an orange and red color, covered with a few russet 

 dots, and with radiating streaks of russet about the stem ; flesh, yellowish-white, 

 crisp, with an agreeable mingling of the saccharine and acid, which constitutes a 

 rich flavor. The tree is a fine bearer, vigorous and upright in growth ; season, 

 from November to March. The Baldwin is one of the most profitable apples 

 raised for market. 



four trees will be found to stand at the angles of a plot of 

 ground of a rhomboidal form, and any tree in the orchard 

 within the outside row will stand exactly in the centre of a 

 circle, in which circle six other trees are standing all at a 

 uniform distance apart. If apple-trees, for example, be set 

 thirty feet apart, in the usual manner, or in the old quin- 

 cunx order, one row more of trees may be set on one acre 

 by adopting the modern quincunx style; and yet all the 

 trees will be thirty feet distant from each other over the 

 entire orchard. Planting fruit-trees or grape-vines in the 



