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| Apple Baldwin | Apple Rall's Janet | Apple Nectarapple | Apple Arthur Turner | Apple Golden Supreme | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | A very popular old American apple variety, widely grown for culinary use, and a good keeper. | Pleasant flavor, flesh like McIntosh. Juicy. | Maroon skin colored apple with yellow undercolor. Skin is chewy like a nectarine, and displays unique cracking near the calyx lobe. Flavor and scent similar to a nectarine. | A well-known early season culinary apple. Cooks to a sweet puree. Grows easily in most situations. | Yellow with pink blush, medium to large fruit, ideally conic but often somewhat oblate. White to light-cream colored flesh is firm, moderately crisp, and juicy to very juicy. The flavor is sweet to mildly sweet and pleasant with little or no detectable acid. |
Identification | Baldwin | Rall's Janet | Nectarapple | Arthur Turner | Golden Supreme |
| Fruit colour | Red / Green | Red | |||
| Flesh colour | White to Cream, pale yellow | ||||
| Fruit size | Variable | ||||
| Fruit shape | Flat-round | ||||
Using | Baldwin | Rall's Janet | Nectarapple | Arthur Turner | Golden Supreme |
| Flavor | Very good | Average | Good | ||
| Flavour style | Sweet/Sharp | Sweeter | |||
| Ripening period | Mid-Late season | Mid season | |||
| Use/Keeping | 3 months or more | 2-3 weeks | |||
| Cooking result | Keeps shape | Puree | |||
Growing | Baldwin | Rall's Janet | Nectarapple | Arthur Turner | Golden Supreme |
| Picking | |||||
| Cropping | Good | Heavy | |||
| Vigour | Slightly large | Average growth | |||
| Pollination | Flowering group 4 Flowers Mid-Late season Self-sterile | Flowering group 3 Flowers Mid season Self-sterile | |||
| Gardening skill | Average | Very easy | |||
| Problems | Scab - Some susceptibility Mildew - Some susceptibility Fireblight - Some susceptibility Cedar apple rust - Very resistant Bitter pit - Some susceptibility | ||||
Other | Baldwin | Rall's Janet | Nectarapple | Arthur Turner | Golden Supreme |
| Country of origin | United States | United States | United Kingdom | ||
| Other qualities | Awards 1993 |