Variety Library

Belle de Jardin

Unclassified · 2 trees planted · confidence low

No authoritative record of an apple under this name was found. Checked and absent from: the WSU Mount Vernon Cultivar Performance Database (all 77 cultivars), Pomiferous, Orange Pippin, and French nursery and conservatory variety catalogues. The name is most likely a garbled or local rendering of another cultivar - plausible candidates are Belle de Boskoop (Netherlands 1856, triploid, high-acid, rated as a single-varietal cider apple) or one of the French Belle varieties such as Belle de Tours, Belle Fille Normande or Belle Fille de la Manche. Treat the orchard's tree as unidentified until it is compared against a reference collection or DNA-fingerprinted; MOFGA's Maine Heritage Orchard runs such a project jointly with WSU.

Discrepancies: Not a conflict between sources but a total absence of them - no source at any priority tier documents this name. Every field is left null rather than inferred from the candidate cultivars, since choosing among Belle de Boskoop and the French Belle varieties would change ploidy, acid and season completely.

Sources

  • cider.wsu.edu/ciderweb/
  • pomiferous.com/applebyname/belle-fille-normande-id-619
  • orangepippintrees.com/articles/gardening/traditional-french-