BALDWIN APPLE. 



Teee. — ^Vigorous, very straight, erect, and regularly branched when 

 young, as represented in the vignette, which is from a tree two yeai's 

 budded ; when full grown, forming a large round head. 



Wood. — Deep reddish chestnut, stout, slightly downy, rather long- 

 jointed, and sprinkled with large, round, white specks ; buds rather large, 

 with prominent shoulders, broad, obtuse, flattened and inclining towards 

 the branch. Flower-buds oval, with brown scales, and slightly woolly. 



Leaves. — Lai^ge, thick, cordate at the base, roundish ovate, suddenly 

 tapering to a point, doubly and rather obtusely serrated, wavy, and cmied 

 inwards at the edges ; the under side downy, with strong, reddish nerves ; 

 petioles stout and rather short; stipules medium length, hneai\ 



Flowees. — Large and showy, tinged with pink 



Feuit. — Large, about two and a half inches deep, and three brood: 

 Form, roundish, largest about the middle, and naiTowing little to the 

 eye : Skin, fair, smooth, glossy, bright yellow in the shade, but neai'ly 

 covered with deep orange red, approaching to scarlet, indistinctly striped 

 with crimson, and covered with prominent grayish specks, thickest near 

 the crown; blotched with russet in the cavity around the stem, which, 

 in soine specimens, extends in irregular tracings over the base of the 

 fruit: Stem, medium length, about three quai'ters of an inch, rather 

 slender, curved, and obhquely inserted in a regular and moderately deep 

 cavity: Eye, medium size, closed, and sunk in a rather deep and slightly 

 plaited or furrowed hollow ; segments of the calyx long ■ and woolly : 

 Flesh, yellowish, fine, crisp and tender : Juice, abundant, sugary, with a 

 delicious admixtui-e of acid, rich, brisk, and high-flavored: Core, medium 

 size, very close : Seeds, rather lai-ge and pointed, but mostly abortive. 



Ripe in December, and keeps in excellent condition till May or June 



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