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440. BONNIE BRIDE. 



A variety cultivated in the Carse of Gowrie orchards, and esteemed 

 as a fruit of excellent quality ; tree a good bearer, middle sized and 

 healthy, a rare variety. — M. C. II. S. iv. 471. 



441. BOOMREY. 



A pretty large handsome apple, of a flat shape, and deep red color ; 

 and the flesh is streaked with red. It is not fit to eat raw, but will do 

 well for cider, or for the kitchen. It keeps till April. — Fors. Treat. 94. 



442. BOVEY REDSTREAK. 



A handsome apple of flattish shape, beautifully streaked with a bright 

 red next the eye, which is small, and of a yellow color about the foot- 

 stalk. It keeps till the latter end of October. — Fors. Treat. 94. 



443. BOWES'S NONESUCH. 



A medium sized apple, for culinary purposes ; the shape is roundish, 

 skin, green, and striped with red ; in use during October. — H. S. C. n. 490. 



444. BRAINGE. 



A small cider apple of ovate shape, and striped with red ; it is in use 

 in November.— IT. S. C. n. 80. 



445. BOURASSA. 



Synontme. — Barrossa. 



A medium sized conical apple, of second-rate quality ; it is russeted 

 and red, suitable either for culinary or dessert use ; and is in season 

 from October to December. — H. S. C. p. 8. 



446. BRAUNE MAL. 



A large culinary apple of oblate shape, and brown color, and in use 

 from December to March. — II. S. C. n. 83. 



447. BRAUNSCHWEIGER MILCH. 



Synonymes. — Milch Apfel, Christ Gartenb. 300. 



This is an extremely beautiful and valuable German apple, roundish, 

 three inches high, and about the same wide. Its skin is as thin, clear, and 

 tender, as the finest paper, snow-white, like wax, with several beautiful 

 crimson stripes and dots on the sunny side ; it has a very short stalk, 

 ripens in the beginning of August, and keeps for fourteen days. — 

 Christ Gartenb. 300. 



