Canada Baldwin
- Description
- Canada Baldwin is not a Baldwin but belongs in the Fameuse group. It yields moderately heavy crops, and under favorable conditions tends to become an annual bearer. It is not recommended for planting, except in those regions where a hardy variety of the Fameuse type is desired to extend the Fameuse season.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately coarse, crisp, moderately tender, juicy, mild subacid, sometimes slightly astringent, with a Fameuse-like aroma, pleasant, good or possibly very good in quality
- Flesh color
- white, red tinged
- Skin quality
- thick, tough, smooth
- Skin color
- yellow, red blushed, purple-carmine blushed, red mottled, green, purple-carmine striped
- Sizes
- below medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, ribbed, oblate, uniform, symmetrical, conical
- Keeping quality
- The season ends in January but often some portion of the fruit may keep until April
- General quality
- It is a better keeper than Fameuse, but less attractive.
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- January
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 92.