Billy Bond
- From
- Lyons
- Description
- The location of the origin is disputed, some saying it is older, dating to 1790, and comes from France
- Flesh quality
- Firm, moderately coarse-grained, rather tender, rather crisp, juicy, with a peculiar rather pleasant but not high flavor, subacid, becoming mild subacid when fully ripe, good.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged, red tinged
- Skin quality
- Smooth and somewhat waxy.
- Skin color
- red mottled, yellow, red striped
- Sizes
- very large, large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, ribbed, oblong, conical
- Keeping quality
- Season October to January. The fruit is sometimes kept till March but after midwinter it deteriorates in quality and color.
- General quality
- Considered a good and attractive apple.
- Uses
- culinary
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- January
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 75.