Baldwin originated with Dr. William Baldwin, Montgomery, Alabama. It became popular because of its late ripening and splendid keeping qualities and gained a place on the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society in 1871, which it held until 1897. Leaves large; glands reniform; fruit medium in size, greenish-white; flesh white, stained at the stone; quality fair; stone free, small.
Baltet. 1. Thomas Guide Prat. 48. 1876. 2. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 86 fig. 1906.
M. Baltet, Troyes, Aube, France, originated this variety about 1866. Leaves glandless; flowers medium in size; fruit large, roundish-oval, with a mamelon tip at the apex; skin creamy-white, reddish-purple where exposed; flesh tinged with red, deeper about the stone; quality excellent; stone elongated, with pointed apex; ripens early in October.
Baltimore Beauty. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 490. 1845.
Leaves with globose glands; flowers large; fruit small, roundish-oval; color deep orange, with a brilliant red cheek; flesh yellow, red at the stone, sweet; ripens early in August.
Baltimore Rose. 1. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt. 9. 1857.
Very similar to Oldmixon Cling.
Bandel. 1. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 279. 1882. 2. Ibid. 197. 1883.
This variety, grown from seed by a Mr. Bandel, Saugatuck, Michigan, closely resembles Early Crawford but ripens five days earlier.
Banner. 1. Ont. Sta. Rpt. 5:107. 1898. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 32. 1899. 3. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 107. 1903.