So revered is the Baldwin apple that Massachusetts has not one but two monuments to the bright-red winter fruit.
For many years, the Baldwin apple was the most popular fruit in New England and New York. A small, hard apple remarkably free of blight and blemishes, people prized it for
making hard cider and pie. Commercial
growers loved it because it produced huge
crops every other year and shipped easily.
In 1885, an article in the New England Farmer praised the apple: “What the Concord is among grapes, what the Bartlett has been among pears, the Baldwin is among apples.”
