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Belle Bonde. — (^rioin, France. 



Fruit medium or above, roundisli conical, |)ale yellciw, stri])ed 

 and splaslied witli red; dots larg-e, light; fie.sli wliitish, a little 

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

 ruary. 



Belmont (irajc/(). — (.)rigin, Lancaster Co., Penns^dvauia; tree 

 vigorous, very productive. 



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

 conical, sometimes oblong; svu'face very smooth, light waxen yellow, 

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

 cavit}' generally large, wide, wavy, brown; stem medium to long; 



Belincnt. 



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 sulj- 

 acid, nearly l)est. November to Fe))ruary. 



Ben Davis. — Origin in douljf, more probaljly ^'irgiaia or Ten- 

 nessee; widely disseminated at tlie Sinitli before 1S.50. In the 

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



