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Texas. Leaves Triflora-like with peculiar double, crenulate, glandular margins. Fruit 



conical, of medium size; cavity shallow; suture faint; skin thin; bright red; bloom 



moderate; flesh soft, yellow, subacid; quality fair; stone medium in size, round-oval, 



clinging. 



Biery. Triflora. I. U. S. D. A. Pom. Rpt. 45. 1895. 



Received from California by J. J. Biery, Covington, Louisiana, wrongly labeled 

 Long Fruit. Fruit spherical, medium in size; cavity deep; suture indistinct; color 

 yellow, blushed with red, patched with russet and with minute, russet dots, skin thin, 

 separating easily from the tender, juicy, yellow flesh; good; stone medium in size, oval, 

 clinging ; early. 

 Big Rose. Domestica. i. U. S. D. A. Div. Pom. Bui. 10:21. 1901. 



A variety of English origin introduced into Oregon about 1900. 

 Bilona. Triflora X ? 



Bilona, as yet unintroduced, originated with H. A. Biles, Roanoke, Texas, and is 

 thought by F. T. Ramsey of Austin, Texas, to be a seedling of Chabot probably crossed 

 with some native variety. Tree resembles Chabot ; fruit red, coloring long before ripe ; 

 quality said to be very good. 



Bingham. Domestica. i. Prince Treat. Hort. 27. 1828. 2. Prince Pom. Man. 2:101. 

 1832. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 272. 1845. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 87. 1854. 

 5. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 422. 1889. Bingham's Pflaume 5. 



Originated in Pennsylvania. Fruit large, oval, yellow, occasionally with carmine 

 dots on the sunny exposure ; suture distinct ; cavity narrow and deep ; flesh yellowish, 

 juicy, pleasant; good; clingstone; early; at one time highly esteemed. 

 Biondeck. Domestica. i. Koch Deut. Obst. 572. 1876. 2. Lauche Deut. Pom. 10, 

 PI. IV. 1882. 3. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 422. 1889. 



Biondeck's Friihzwetsche i, 2, 3. Biondeck' s roihe Friihzwetsche 2. Biondeck' s 

 Rote Fruh Zwetsche 3. Precoce Biondeck 3. Quetsche Precoce de Biondeck 3. 



Liegel produced this variety from a seed of Early Yellow and named it after his 

 friend Biondeck, of Baden, near Vienna. Tree large, productive; fruit oval, medium, 

 light red ; flesh yellowish, sweet, highly flavored ; freestone ; early ; considered valuable 

 for drying. 

 Birchland. Americana, i. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. ad Ser. 3:49. 1900. 



A variety from Minnesota reported as unsatisfactory in British Columbia. 

 Bittern. Domestica. i. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 289. 1889. 2. U. S. D. A. Pom. Rpt. 25. 

 1894. 3. Cornell Sta. Bui. 131:182. 1897. Biltern 3. 



A seedling grown by Francis Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England. Tree produc- 

 tive; fruit above medium or large, oval, purple, with a heavy bloom; dots few, incon- 

 spicuous; skin thick, acid; flesh greenish-yellow, firm, juicy, brisk subacid; good; 

 stone long, of medium size, oval, clinging; early. 



Bixby. Americana, i. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 436. 1888. 2. la. Sta. Bid. 46:262. 1892. 

 3. Wis. Sta. Bui. 63:29. 1897. 



Found on the homestead of Rev. N. W. Bixby, Clayton County, Iowa, in 1847 ; 

 introduced by C. H. True, Edgewood, Iowa, in 1880. Tree spreading, vigorous; fruit 



