442 THE GRAPES OF NEW YORK. 



Blue Favorite. (Aest.?) Purple Favorite. From Georgia, about 1825 or earlier. 

 Very vigorous, resembling Cunningham but not so prolific ; cluster large, conical ; berries 

 small, round, black; juicy, vinous; good; ripens with Herbemont. 



Blue Imperial. (Lab.) Described by Downing in 1869 as follows: " Vigorous, 

 healthy, unproductive; bunch medium, short; berry large, round, black, hard pulp; poor 

 in quality; ripens with Hartford." 



Boadicea. (Lab. Vin.) A cross of Telegraph with Black Hamburg; from Chas. J. 

 Copley, Stapleton, New York. Of medium vigor; bunch medium, compact; berry oval; 

 meaty, sweet with a rich, aromatic flavor; good keeper; ripens with Isabella. 



Boadicea. (Lab.) A Concord seedling; from T. B. Miner of New Jersey. Vigorous, 

 unproductive; bunch small; berry small, white. 



Bokchito. (Line. Lab. Vin. Bourq.) A seedling of Early Purple crossed with 

 Brilliant; from Munson in 1899. Stamens erect; cluster large; bern,^ medium, black; 

 ripens mid-season. 



Bonne Madame. Listed with varieties which ripened earliest at the Experimental 

 Farms, Canada, in 1905. 



Bottsi. (Bourq.) From South Carolina. Very vigorous, productive; bunch very 

 large, loose; berry below medium, light to dark pink, susceptible to black-rot. Very 

 similar to Herbemont and names by some believed to be sjmonymous. 



Boulevard. (Lab. Vin.) From A. Koeth, Charlotte, New York; Concord crossed 

 with Brighton. Vigorous, productive; bunch large, compact, shouldered; berry medium, 

 round, greenish-white; juicy, sweet, vinous; ripens with Concord. 



Bowman. (Lab.) Described in Magazine of Horticulture, 1863, by Prince as a 

 dark purple, early table grape of good quality. 



Braddock. (Lab.) W. R. Prince, in Magazine of Horticulture for 1863, notes this 

 as a purplish, early sweet table grape; hardy and adapted to New England. 



Bradley. (Lab. Vin. ?) Described by A. C. Hubbard of Troy, Michigan, in the 

 United States Patent Office Report for 1849 as a grape of the Isabella type but three or 

 four weeks earlier. 



Braendly. (Lab.? Vin.?) From Illinois. Very weak, unproductive; stamens 

 upright; bunch small, irregularly loose; berry small, yellow; of poor quality; ripens 

 with Cynthiana. 



Brand White. (Lab. Vin.) Resembles Cassady; exhibited before the Mississippi 

 Valley Grape Growers' Association in 1867. 



Breck. (Lab.) Exhibited before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1855 

 by Thomas Waterman who gave it the above name. Resembles Winne. Hardy; early. 



Bridgewater. (Lab.) Supposed to be a sport of Worden, received at this Station 

 in 1 901 from J. B. Tuckerman, Cassville, New York. Very similar to Worden but said 

 by the originator to be a week or ten days earlier. 



