Fruit very large, yellow; glands globose; flesh firm, sweet, aromatic; matures in September.
Belle de Beaucaire. 1. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 94. 1831. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 290. 1854. 3. Leroy Dict. Pom. 6:52, 53 fig. 1879.
This variety originated near Beaucaire, Gard, France. Glands small, globose; flowers small; fruit large, roundish; cavity narrow, deep; apex with a mamelon tip; skin greenish-yellow, spotted with carmine in the sun; flesh greenish-white, red at the stone, firm, juicy, pleasingly acidulated; stone free, brown; ripens the last of August.
Belle Beausse. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 6:54 fig., 55, 56. 1879.
Belle Beauce. 2. Kenrick Am. Orch. 212. 1832.
Belle Bausse. 3. Prince Pom. Man. 2:11, 12. 1832. 4. Mas Le Verger 7:163, 164, fig. 80. 1866-73. 5. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 599. 1869.
Belle-Bauce. 6. Poiteau Pom. Franc. 1:No. 15, Pl. 1846.
Schöne von Beauce. 7. Dochnahl Führ. Okstkunde 3:202, 203, 1858.
This variety was raised long ago by Joseph Beausse, Montreuil, Bellay, France. Because of its close resemblance to Grosse Mignonne the two have often been confused. Fruit large, somewhat flattened at the base and apex, with a distinct suture; skin thin, with fine pubescence, greenish-yellow, highly colored with deep red; flesh white, tinged with red around the pit, juicy, tender, melting, vinous; quality good; freestone; season early September.
Belle Beauté. 1. Liegel Syst. Anleit. 184. 1825.
An excellent, scarlet-red freestone ripening the end of September.
Belle Cartière. 1. Pom. France 6:No. 8, Pl. 8. 1869.
Armand Jaboulay introduced Belle Cartière which he found in the vineyard of Madame Cartière, Oullins, Rhône, France. Glands reniform; flowers small; fruit large, globular; suture more or less pronounced; skin heavily pubescent, white, almost entirely covered with reddish-purple; flesh white, with red radiating from the pit, melting, vinous, juicy; pit nearly free, obtuse, deeply grooved; ripens the first week in September.
Belle de Charleville. 1. Thomas Guide Prat. 52. 1876.