Belmont
- From
- Strasburg
- Description
- Belmont originated in the garden of a Mrs. Bean, near Strasburg, Pa.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately fine, crisp, tender, moderately juicy, mild subacid, very good
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- thick, tough, smooth, waxen
- Skin color
- orange-red blushed, yellow, white mottled
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, ribbed, oblate, oblong, uniform, conical
- Keeping quality
- Does not always keep well and does not ship well because it shows bruises readily so that with ordinary methods of handling it is apt to be damaged in appearance. In trying locations it is sometimes injured by sunscald or canker.
- General quality
- Good.
- Uses
- market, dessert, cooking
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- February
- Also known as
- Belmont Late
- Gate
- Gait
- Gate
- Golden Pippin of some
- Kelley White
- Mamma Beam
- Mamma Bean
- Waxen Apple
- Waxen of some
- White
- White Apple
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 67.