Known in the Ukraine in the 1700's. Ground color pale yellow, ripening to red or red-striped in September.
Flesh is white, coarse-textured, fairly dry and slightly acid.
From a chance seedling on John Ball's farm in Wilmington, Massachusetts about 1740. Baldwin was widely planted in the Northeast in 1800's. Severe winter of 1933-34 decimated commercial plantings in New England. Trace of sweetness and acidity. Famous for winter-keeping characteristics in root cellars.