THE APPLE. 



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Belle Bonde. Origin, France. 



Fruit medium or above, roundish conical, pale yellow, striped 

 and splashed with red; dots large, light; flesh whitish, a little 

 coarse, tender, brisk subacid, good for cooking. January and Feb- 

 ruary. 



Belmont (Waxen). Origin, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; tree 

 vigorous, very productive. 



Fruit medium to large, globular, a little flattened, somewhat 

 conical, sometimes oblong; surface very smooth, light waxen yellow, 

 often with blushed orange and bright red cheek; dots minute, few; 

 cavity generally large, wide, wavy, brown; stem medium to long; 



basin wavy or corrugated, medium; calyx small, usually closed. 

 Core wide, regular, somewhat open, clasping, axis short; seeds many, 

 large, flat; flesh yellow, crisp, tender, fine-grained, juicy, mild sub- 

 acid, nearly best. November to February. 



Ben Davis. Origin in doubt, more probably Virginia or Ten- 

 nessee; widely disseminated at the South before 1850. In the 

 Southwest and West, especially Missouri, this is the leading winter 



