Belle de Pontoise

Belle de Pontoise, painted by Amanda Almira Newton in 1921 for the US Department of Agriculture. Amanda Almira Newton. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Pontoise, France, 1869
Raised by: Remy pere
Parentage: Seedling of Aport As the National Fruit Collection records it
Uses: Dessert, Cooking
Picked: October, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: ground colour yellow-green; over-colour flushed orange, striped red
Flesh: White
Also called: Belle Pontoise; Frumos de Pontoise; Pontoiske; Pontuazskaia krasavita; Pontuazskaya krasavitsa; Schoener von Pontoise; Schoner aus Pontoise; Schoner von Pontoise

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

Raised 1869. From France. Raised by Remy pere of Pontoise. Introduced 1879.

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Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Belle de Pontoise France, 1869
- Seed parent Aport Russia, late 18th century

Where Belle de Pontoise came from.

Sources

Belle de Pontoise (accession 1996 - 017), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october); the other names.

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