Baker
- From
- Richfield
- Description
- In keeping, quality, and color it is not as good as the Baldwin. It is nearly obsolete by 1905. It is stated that the original tree was in Richfield CT during the Revolutionary War.
- Flesh quality
- Flesh moderately firm, coarse, breaking, tender and rather juicy. It is mildly subacid and sweet. It has an agreeable, good flavor.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin color
- red, yellow, red mottled, carmine striped, green, carmine blushed
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- uniform, round, symmetrical, conical
- General quality
- Uniform in size, fairly good quality.
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 55.