WORTHY GENERAL CULTIVATION. 



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BELMONT. 



Gate, I White Apple, 



Mamma Beam, Kelley White, 



Golden Pippin of some, | Waxen of some. 



American. By some stated to have originated in Virginia, by 

 others in Pennsylvania, and, on the authority of Prof. Kirtland, Mr. 

 Downing in his first edition of " Fruits and Fruit Trees," made it 

 synonymous with the " Waxen" of Coxe. As this is yet uncertain, 

 we adopt the name by which the fruit is most largely known. 



Tree, healthy, vigorous, spreading, wood yellowish, good bearer, 

 does not succeed on the alluvial soils of the West, but on all high, 

 warm, or limestone soils does finely, and makes a large tree. 



Size, medium to large ; form, irregular, usually roundish, some- 

 times oblong rounded. South it grows very large, and also West, 

 on new rich soils in Wisconsin; but grown South its delicacy, fine 

 grain and flavor are lost. Skin, thin, smooth, glossy, or oily ; color, 

 rich clear light yellow ; at South with a few dark brown specks, and 

 North with a clear vermillion red cheek, with carmine spots ; South 

 slight russet marblings, and much of mould or fungus ; stem, me- 

 dium length, projecting slightly beyond the surface, always slender ; 

 calyx, varying from small and close to open and reflexed ; basin, 

 from shallow to rather deep, always furrowed; flesh, yellowish 

 white, fine grained, very tender, juicy, sprightly, sub-acid; core. 



