28 Brigade-Surgeon J. E. T. Aitchison's Notes on Products 



Bow — kamCin ; bowed, bent — kamdni. 



Boxes — for the exportation of fresh grapes, apples, 



and 2>6ars are usually made of the wood of 



PopuLus NIGRA, and Salix species. 

 Box-wood — Buxus sempervirens. 

 Boz, buz — -j^j — haz — y: — had, hurz. Applied to 



goats generally, or to the female goat in \)m:- 



ticular, 

 Boz-ddn — [the goat's house, or pen], the name of a 



locality. 

 Boz-ganj — ^^ y. — hoz-ghanj — ^z y^ — [the goat's 



store], a term applied to the galls of Pistacia 



VERA. 



Boz-i-kohl — [the hill goat], the female Ibex. 

 Boz-i-dhu — [the female Gazelle]. 

 Bramble — Rubus species. 

 Branch — slidk, shdkh, shakh, shdgh. 



Brassica campestris, Lm?i. ; subspecies Napus, Linn. 



CrUCIFER/E. 



Eape, Colza, shersham, sarsham, sarshaf; Hind., sarson. 

 Only of late years has this been cultivated round Herat ; it is 

 common enough in the vicinity of Kandahar. It is grown 

 for its seed, from which is obtained the oil, roghan-i-shersham, 

 chiefly employed for lighting with, but also as a food oil. 



Brassica campestris, Linn. ; subspecies Rapa, Linn. 

 Crucifkr^. 



The Turnip, shak/ham, a common vegetable in all gardens, 

 8ome varieties are excellent. This is one of the few plants 

 that may be said to yield two crops during the year, the first 

 sowing in early summer yields seed, which seed is sown in 

 autumn, and during winter yields turnips. 



Brassica oleracea, Linn. Cruciferji:. 



Tlie cultivated plant, yielding the varieties of cabbage, 

 karam, these are cultivated in all gardens. The Afghans, 

 however, I tliink use cabbages much more freely than the 



