BIELA BORODOWKA. Dessert or culinary, August 

 to September, large 3^ by 3, round, oblong, flattened 

 both ends. Colour, pale milky yellow, pink flush with 

 broken red stripes. Flesh, soft, yellow, pleasantly acid. 

 Eye, closed, tips reflexed, in a boldly ribbed and deep 

 basin. Stem, short and stout. Growth, compact, 

 very upright ; extremely fertile. Leaf, very large, 

 oval, upward folded, down curved, coarsely curved 

 serrate. Origin, Russian. Of the style of Duchess of 

 Oldenburg, but not so attractive in appearance. 



BIETIGHEIMER. F., Rouge de Stettin; G., 

 Rother St ettiner . Synonyms number more than twenty- 

 five. Culinary, November to February, large, 3 by 2}, 

 round flattened, regular. Colour, a rich crimson, with 

 a curious milky tinge in the lighter portions. Flesh, 

 firm, greenish- white, sweet but with no aroma. 

 Growth, spreading ; vigorous. Leaf, rather pale, flat, 

 finely and sharply serrate. Remarkable for its distinct 

 colouring. Not worthy of cultivation. The correct 

 name is Rother Stettiner. 



BISMARK. Card. Chron., 1898, p. 257. Culinary, 

 November to February, large to very large, tapering 

 to eye and sides, flat, angular. Colour, pale yellow, 

 almost covered with dark crimson flush. Flesh, crisp, 

 juicy and sub-acid. Eye, closed, in a much ribbed and, 

 angular basin. Stem, short, in a wide russet lined 

 cavity. Growth, moderate, rather spreading. Leaf, 

 very long, soft grey-green, lax, edges very undulated, 

 shallow serrate or nearly crenate. Origin, raised at 

 the German settlement of Bismark, in Hobart, in Tas- 

 mania. Another account claims it to have been raised 

 by a Mr. Fricke, of Carisbrooke, Victoria, but the first 

 is I presume correct. It must not be confused with the 

 Bismark of Germany, which dates from 1877. A valu- 

 able fruit, cooking excellently. 



Black Blenheim : see Bess Pool. 



Black Blenheim : see Hambledon Deux Ans, 

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