74 FIGS. 



and well flavoured. Only a second-rate variety, and the 

 tree is so tender, that it is apt to be cut down, even to the 

 ground, by severe frosts. 



Bourjassotte Blanche. See White Bourjassotte. 



Bourjassotte Noire. See Slack Bourjassotte. 



Brocket Hall. See White Ischia. 



Brown Hamburgh. See Brunswick. 



BEOWN ISCHIA (Chestnut-coloured Ischia). Medium 

 sized, roundish-turbinate. Skin light brown, or chestnut 

 coloured. Eye very large. Flesh purple, sweet, and 

 high-flavoured. Fruit apt to burst by too much wet. 

 This is one of the best of figs, ripening in the beginning 

 and middle of August. Tree an excellent bearer, pretty 

 hardy, and bears as a standard in favourable situations. 

 It forces well. 



Brown Italian. See Brown Turkey. 



Brown Naples. See Brown Turkey. 



BROWN TURKEY (Ashridge Forcing ; Blue ; Common 

 Blue; Blue Burgundy ; Brown Italian ; Brown Naples ; 

 Long Naples ', Early ; Howick ; Italian ; Jerusalem ; 

 Large Blue; Lee's Perpetual; Murrey; Purple; Small 

 Blue; Fleur Rouge; Walton). Large and pyriform. 

 Skin brownish red, covered with blue bloom. Flesh red 

 and very luscious. Tree very prolific, hardy, and one of 

 the best for out-door culture, as a standard. August and 

 September. 



BRUNSWICK (Bayswater ; Black Naples ; Broivn Ham- 

 burgh; Clementine; Hanover; Madonna; Large White 

 Turkey; Rose Blanche; Rose Beyronne; Peronne ; Rose; 

 Red). Very large and pyriform, oblique at the apex, 

 which is very much depressed. Skin greenish yellow in 

 the shade ; violet brown on the other side. Flesh yellow 

 under the skin, tinged with red towards the centre. Yery 

 rich and excellent. Middle of August. The tree is very 

 hardy and an excellent bearer, and certainly the best for 

 out-door cultivation against walls. 



Chestnut-coloured Ischia. See Brown Ischia. 



Clementine. See Brunswick. 



Common Purple. See Brown Turkey. 



Cyprus. See Yellow Ischia. 



Early. See Broivn Turkey. 



