Boskoop
- Description
- This variety is said to have originated from seed in 1856 in the nursery of the Ottolander family at Boskoop. Palandt finds that it is identical with the variety described by Lauche and Oberdieck as " Rei- nette von Montfort." It was imported into this country more than twenty-five years ago and has gradually been disseminated to a limited extent in various portions of New York state.
- Flesh quality
- Firm, somewhat coarse, tender, juicy, crisp, brisk subacid, and good to very good.
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- Roughened with russet flecks, often irregularly overspread with russet.
- Skin color
- yellow, red striped, red blushed, red mottled, green
- Sizes
- large
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate
- Keeping quality
- Great: Can keep until April.
- Uses
- market, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- November
- Also known as
- Belle de Boscoop
- Belle of Boskoop
- Belle de Boskoop
- Reinette Belle de Boskoop
- Reinette Monstrueuse
- Reinette von Montfort
- Schöner von Boskoop
- Schoone von Boskoop
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 25.