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Baker. — Origin, Ridgeficld, ConiU'cticut ; tree vigorous, spreading, 

 productive. 



Fruit large, roundish oblate, inclining to conic; surface yellowish, 

 mostly shaded and splashed with shades of crimson; cavity regular, 

 medium; stalk short, moderately stout; l)asin shallow, slightly 

 corrugated; calyx closed; segments slightly recurved. Core small; 

 flesh yellowish, rather coarse, often tinged witli crimson near the skin, 

 pleasant subacid, very good. October to February. 



Baldwin. — Origin, AVilmington near Lowell, Massachusetts. A 

 chance seedling which bore its first fruit about the middle of the 

 eighteenth century; now a leading Eastern market variety. Tree 

 vigorous, upright, spreading, very productive. 



Fruit large, roundish, narrowing a little to the calyx; surface 

 rich yellow on shaded side, nearly covered with deep red on sunny side 

 with stripes of crimson and bright red, sometimes overlaid with 

 veined russet; dots minute, ru-;set, or gray; cavity wide, regular, 

 moderately deep, with some radiating russet; stem medium; basin 



