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Apple varieties, United States

Double-Red Baldwin

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

A brighter coloured sport of Baldwin. It was discovered in 1924 by E.N. Sawyer in Salisbury, New Hampshire, USA. Introduced in 1927. Fruits have coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Double-Red Baldwin United States, 1924
- Sport of Baldwin United States, soon after 1740

Sources

Double-Red Baldwin (accession 1951 - 009), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october).