Belle et Bonne
- From
- Connecticut
- Description
- The fruit is large, handsome, smooth, uniform in size and of about the same season as Hubbardston.
- Flesh quality
- coarse, juicy, mild subacid, good
- Flesh color
- yellow, green
- Skin quality
- smooth
- Skin color
- green, yellow
- Sizes
- very large, large
- Shape
- round, oblate
- General quality
- It is rather too mild in flavor to be desirable for general purposes. In hardiness, health and longevity it ranks about with Baldwin.
- Eating season starts in
- February
- Eating season ends in
- March
- Also known as
- Bellyband
- Rolland
- Tenon Hills
- Winter Belle Bonne
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 67.