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Skin thin, very tender, smooth, pale yellow, often entirely covered with 

 broken stripes and irregular splashes of attractive bright red, overspread 

 with thin bluish bloom. Dots numerous, conspicuous, very small, light 

 colored. 



Calyx tube large, rather wide, urn-shape to funnel-form widening in the 

 lower part of the funnel cylinder. Stamens median to marginal. 



Core small to medium, axile ; cells closed or nearly so ; core lines clasping. 

 Carpels roundish, somewhat concave, mucronate, not emarginate. Seeds 

 medium to rather large, moderately wide, plump, somewhat obtuse, dark 

 brown. 



Flesh tinged with yellow, medium in grain, crisp, tender, moderately juicy 

 to juicy, agreeable subacid, slightly aromatic, good. 



Season mid-August to mid-September. 



BOSKOOP. 



REFERENCES, i. Berghuis, 1868 : col. pi. No. 43. 2. Oberdieck, Monatshefte, 

 1869:193. 3. Oberdieck, Deutschlands beste Obstsorten, 212. 4. Lauche, 

 Erg'dnzungsband zum III. Handb., 265. 5. Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt., 7:56, 

 155. 1881. 6. Downing, 1881:77 app. fig. 7. Budd, la. Hort. Soc., 1882: 8. 

 Barry, 1883:342. 9. Willard, W. N. Y. Hort. Soc., 1889:171 (reprint in Mich. 

 Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1889:329). 10. Palandt, GartenHora, 38:425. 1889. col. pi. 

 ii. Brodie, Can. Hort., 12:238. 1889. 12. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:234. 13. 

 Bailey, Amer. Card., 14:501. 1893. 14. Craig, Can. Hort., 16:138. 1893. fig. 

 15. Bredsted, 1893:233. 16. Gaucher, Pomologie, 1894 :No. 20. col. pi. 

 17. Beach and Clark, A r . Y. Sta. Bui, 248:113. 1904. 



SYNONYMS. BELLE DE BOSCOOP (n). BELLE OF BOSKOOP (9). BELLE DE 

 BOSKOOP (6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15). Belle de Boskoop (16, 17). BOSKOOP (5, 

 17). Reinette Belle de Boskoop (16). Reinette Monstrueuse (16). Rei- 

 nette von Mont fort (16). SCHONER VON BOSKOOP (2, 3, 4, 10, 16). SCHOONE 

 VON BOSKOOP (i). Schoone van Boskoop (16). 



In some locations this fruit becomes highly colored with attractive bright 

 red predominating, but more often f1 ie color is not good, being predominantly 

 dull green or yellow and more or less russeted. It is more suitable for gen- 

 eral market and culinary purposes than for dessert. It is of good size but 

 does not rank high in quality; the texture is somewhat coarse, and the 

 flavor rather too acid for an agreeable dessert apple, but late in the season 

 its acidity becomes modified. It appears to be pretty hardy and a good 

 bearer. When grown on warm soils in Southern New York it may be 

 marketed in September, but in the more northern regions of the state it 

 keeps into the winter. It is perhaps of sufficient merit to be worthy of 

 testing but we are not yet ready to recommend it for general planting. 



Historical. This variety is said to have originated from seed in 1856 in 

 the nursery of the Ottolander family at Boskoop (i, 4). Palandt finds that 

 it is identical with the variety described by Lauche and Oberdieck as " Rei- 

 nette von Montfort " (4). It was imported into this country more than 

 twenty-five years ago (5) and has gradually been disseminated to a limited 

 extent in various portions of New York state. 



