Summer Bellflower
- Description
- Resembles the Yellow Bellflower in form and color. It is not considered to be good for commercial planting. Downing "described it as a new variety of promise and stated that it was raised by John R. Comstock of Washington, Dutchess County, N.Y. from seed of Esopus Spitzenburg. There is another variety called the Summer Bellflower that originates in Pennsylvania.
- Flesh quality
- Tender, subacid, good.
- Eating season starts in
- August
- Eating season ends in
- September
- Also known as
- Summer Bellefleur
- Summer Belle-fleur
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 211.