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fruit large, oblate, roundish; stem long, slender; skin dark red; juice colorless; fair in 

 quality; late. No. 3.— Fruit large, red to dark red; juice slightly colored, mild subacid; 

 of very good quality. 



Bowyer Early Heart. P. avium, i. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 47. 1831. 2. Kenrick Am. 

 Orch. 234. 1841. 3. Mas Pom. Gen. 11:15, 16, fig. 8. 1882. 

 Bayer's Early. 4. Hooper W. Fr. Book 269. 1857. 5. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 665. 



1897- 



Roberts' Red. 6. Hooper W. Fr. Book 269. 1857. 



This variety probably originated in England nearly a century ago. Some writers 

 confuse it with Early White Heart but the two are undoubtedly distinct. Tree vigorous, 

 round-topped, hardy, productive; fruit medium in size, obtuse-cordate, slightly com- 

 pressed; cavity shallow, wide; suture distinct; stem variable in length; skin of medium 

 thickness, pale amber-yellow overspread with light red; flesh whitish, tender, juicy, sweet, 

 sprightly, refreshing; very good in quality; stone of meditim size, short-ovate, plump, 

 bltmt at the apex; season early. 

 Boyd Early Black. Species? i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 138. 1881. 



Mentioned in a report from Ohio as a variety of great superiority and value. 

 Brandon. P. pumila. i. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 353. 1896. 



A prolific seedling of Prunus pumila; introduced by the Manitoba Station. 

 Brandywine. P avium X P cerasus. i. Horticulturist N. S. 5:492, PI. 1855. Down- 

 ing Fr. Trees Am. 258. 1857. 



John R. Brinckle, Wilmington, Delaware, produced this variety from a seed of White 

 Bigarreau grown near May Duke. It fruited for the first time in 1851. Tree vigorous, 

 spreading, productive; fruit above medium in size, roundish, obtuse-cordate; suture indis- 

 tinct; stem long, slender; cavity shallow, small; skin yellowish, mottled and marbled with 

 light crimson, glossy; flesh semi-transparent, tender, very juicy, sprightly, acidulous; 

 stone rather large; season the last of June; recommended for culinary uses. 

 Brant. P. avium, i. Mag. Hort. 19:167, 168. 1853. 2. Elliott Fr. Soofe 191 fig. 1854. 

 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 258. 1857. 



Brant was grown by Professor J. P. Kirtland, Cleveland, Ohio, about the middle 

 of the Nineteenth Century, from a pit of Yellow Spanish. Tree vigorous, spreading; fruit 

 large, rotmdish-cordate, uneven, sides slightly compressed; stem medium, set in an angular 

 cavity; skin thin, lively purplish-red changing to dark purplish; flesh dark purplish-red 

 with indistinct white lines radiating from the center, tender, with abundant, colored juice, 

 sweet and richly flavored; pit medium in size, roundish-oval, nearly smooth; season from 

 the middle of June to the first of July. 

 Brassington. P. cerasus. i. Call Cat. 5, fig. 1913. 



A chance seedling found in Oceana County, Michigan. Fruit large, dark red, sprightly 

 subacid; ripens with Early Richmond; productive. 

 Braunauer Glaskirsche. P- cerasus. i. Liegel Syst. Anleit. 168. 1825. 



Braunauer Amarelle. 2. Dochnabl Fahr. Obstkunde 3:^2. 1858. 



This variety originated about 1825. Tree large, moderately productive, with large, 

 Sour Cherry leaves. Often classed as an AmareUe because of the resemblance in the 

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