530 DESCRIPTIONS OF APPLES. 



Fruit large, fair, oblate-conic, often angular; Surface 

 very smooth, waxen-yellow, often faintly blushed orange, 

 and spotted red ; Dots minute, scattered. 



Basin regular or wavy, not deep ; Eye small, closed. 



Cavity wide, wavy, brown ; Stem long. 



Core wide, regular, somewhat open, clasping ; Axis 

 short ; Seeds numerous, large, flat ; Flesh yellow, tender, 



Fig. 166. BELMONT. 



fine-grained, juicy; Flavor mild sub-acid, refreshing, very 

 agreeable ; Quality nearly best ; Use, table, kitchen, mar- 

 ket ; Season, October to December. 



Celestia. 



This fine amateur fruit, which appears destined to take 

 the place of the Dyer, being more handsome, is a seedling 



