Random Cultivar Of The Day
Yellow Belleflower
- From
- Crosswick
- Flesh quality
- firm, crisp, moderately fine-grained, rather tender, juicy, aromatic, rather too acid early in the season but later its acidity becomes somewhat subdued.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- smooth, bright
- Skin color
- yellow, brown-red, pink-red blushed, white
- Sizes
- small, very large, large
- Shape
- round, irregular, ribbed, oblong, ovate, elliptical, conical, unequal sides
- Keeping quality
- In cold storage it keeps about with Tompkins King, but not as well as Rhode Island Greening.
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- April
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 381.