Occident
- From
- Martinez
- Description
- This fruit is of the Yellow Bellflower type, attractive bright yellow, excellent in quality and a remarkably good keeper. Apparently it would be a desirable variety for commercial planting in New York were it not some- what deficient in size.
- Flesh quality
- firm, fine-grained, rather tender, crisp, juicy, sprightly, rich subacid, very good.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- smooth
- Skin color
- yellow, red blushed, brown-red
- Sizes
- medium, below medium
- Shape
- ribbed, oblate, conical
- Keeping quality
- remarkably good
- General quality
- excellent
- Eating season starts in
- January
- Eating season ends in
- May
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 235.