. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. BELLE BLOOD CLING 163 BELLE. Fig. 154. Belle of Georgia. Georgia. Belle elicits praise because of the great beauty of its fruits, which are large, trim in contour, creamy-white, with a beautiful crimson cheek—truly voluptuous in form and color. The fruits are as enticing to the eye in- wardly as outwardly, for the white flesh is delicately marbled, tinted with red at the pit, and fiesh and pit usually part cleanly. Un- fortunately, appearance misrepresents quality; for the variety, while good, falls short in flavor, and the flesh is stringy,
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. BELLE BLOOD CLING 163 BELLE. Fig. 154. Belle of Georgia. Georgia. Belle elicits praise because of the great beauty of its fruits, which are large, trim in contour, creamy-white, with a beautiful crimson cheek—truly voluptuous in form and color. The fruits are as enticing to the eye in- wardly as outwardly, for the white flesh is delicately marbled, tinted with red at the pit, and fiesh and pit usually part cleanly. Un- fortunately, appearance misrepresents quality; for the variety, while good, falls short in flavor, and the flesh is stringy, so that it must be. 154. Belle. (XVa) rated as not above the average for its type. The trees are large, open-headed, a little strag- gling, fast-growing, and hardj^ though, like most of their type, easy prey to leaf-curl. Belle prefers a southern climate, and in the South is often a good commercial sort. Belle came from a seed of Chinese Cling planted in 1870 by L. A. Rumph, Marshallville, Georgia. Tree large, vigorous, spreading, open-topped, hardy, very productive. Leaves oVz inches long, 1^^ inches wide, oblong-lanceolate, leather}'; margin coarsely ser- rate; teeth tipped with dark red glands; petiole 1% inches long, with 2-6 large, reniform or globose, greenish- yellow glands. Fruit midseason; 2 inches in diameter, round-oval, bulging near the apex, compressed, with halves nearly equal; cavity abruptly flaring, red, with tender skin ; suture shallow, deepening toward the apex ; apex round with a mucronate tip; color greenish-white changing to creamy-white, blushed with red, with faint stripes and splashes of darker red, mottled; pubescence short, fine, thick; skin thin, tender, adherent to the pulp ; flesh white, tinged with red at the pit and with radiating rays of red, juicy, stringy, tender, sweet, mild ; good in quality; stone semi-free to free, oval, bulged near the apex, blunt at the base, with short, sharp point at the apex, with deeply pitted surfaces. BEQUETTE F
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