Barcelona Pearmain
Apple
USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Barcelona Pearmain
Origin / History
A foreign variety of uncertain origin, which from its good qualities there has evidently been widely grown under many names (Downing). Bunyard gives the origin as continental, country uncertain, and says it is now almost out of cultivation.
Tree
Hardy and productive (Downing). Growth moderate; fertile (Bunyard). Leaf medium, flat, oval, with a long point, broadly serrate (Bunyard).
Fruit
Size: Medium to smallish; Bunyard gives 2¼ by 2¼.
Form: Roundish oblong; regular (Bunyard).
Stem: Not described in source.
Cavity: Not described in source.
Calyx: Not described in source.
Basin: Not described in source.
Skin: Pale yellow, mostly covered with red (Downing) or flushed with red (Bunyard).
Dots: Many, star-like, russet specks.
Flesh and flavor: Flesh yellowish white to pale yellow, firm, crisp; rich, aromatic, subacid.
Core and seeds: Not described in source.
Season
November to March. Downing gives November to March; Bunyard ends it earlier, in January.
Uses
Dessert.
Subtypes / Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 2 period pomological works
Nursery Catalog Sources
Found in 2 catalogs (1901–1913) from Illinois
- Benjamin Buckman (personal inventory) , Farmingdale , Illinois — 1901
- Benjamin Buckman (personal inventory) , Farmingdale , Illinois — 1913
View original book sources (2)
— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)Barcelona Pearmain.
Speckled Golden Reinette. Speckled Pearmain. Polinia Pearmain. Reinette Rousse. Reinette Rouge. Reinette des Cannes. Glace Rouge. Cassel Reinette. Kleine Casseler Reinette.
A foreign variety of uncertain origin, which from its good qualities there, has evidently been widely grown under many names. Tree hardy and productive.
Fruit medium, roundish oblong, pale yellow, mostly covered with red, and many star-like russet specks. Flesh yellowish white, firm, crisp, rich, aromatic, subacid. November to March.
— E.A. Bunyard, A Handbook of Hardy Fruits (1920)BARCELONA PEARMAIN. Ronalds, p. 21. G., Kleiner Casseler Reinette. (Speckled Golden Reinette, Speckled Pearmain.) Dessert, November to January, smallish, 2¼ by 2¼, roundish-oblong, regular, Colour, pale yellow, flushed with red. Flesh, crisp, pale yellow, aromatic. Growth, moderate ; fertile. Leaf, medium, flat, oval, with a long point, broadly serrate. Origin, continental ; country uncertain. It is now almost out of cultivation.