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BOUTANA. — Fruit, above medium size, oblate, with an oblique 

 axis, and marked with distinct longitudinal ribs on the sides that 

 extend to the apex. Skin, quite green, without any bloom, and 

 downy. Stalk, very short, albout one-eighth of an inch long. Flesh, 

 deep rose-coloured, but not dark ; pretty juicy, and with a flat flavour. 



Brocket Hall. See White Ischia. 



Brown Hamburgh. See Brunswick. 



BROWN 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; Large Blue; Lee's Perpetual; Murrey; 

 Purple ; Small Bluie ; Fleur Rouge ; Walton). — Fruit, large and pyri- 

 form. Skin, brownish red, covered with blue bloom. Flesh, red and 

 very luscious. 



Tree very prolific, hardy, and one of the best for outdoor culture, as 

 a standard. Ripe in August and Septembei-. 



BRUNSWICK {Bayswater ; Black Naples ; Brown Hamburgh ; 

 Clementine ; Drap d'or ; De la St. Jean ; Hanover ; Madonna ; Large 

 White Turkey ; Bed). — Very large and pyriform, oblique at the apex, 

 which is very much depressed. Skin, greenish yellow in the shade, 

 tinged with pale brown on the other side. Flesh, opaline, tinged with 

 very pale flesh colour towards the centre. 



A very rich and excellent fig. Ripe in the middle of August. The 

 tree is very hardy, but not so good a bearer as the Brown Turkey, It 

 is, however, one of the best for outdoor cultivation against walls. 



CASTLE KENNEDY.— Fruit, very large, obovate. Skin, tiiin, 

 very tender, greenish yeUow on the neck and towards the stalk, but 

 pale dingy brown mottled with dull ashy grey on the widest part and 

 towards the eye. Flesh, pale opahne, with shght stains of red round 

 some of the seeds nearest the eye ; very tender, but not richly 

 flavoured. 



A "large and handsome fig, remarkable for its earliness, which is 

 nearly three weeks earlier than White Marseilles. The fruit greatly 

 resembles the Brunswick ; but it is entirely distinct in the habit and 

 growth of the plant. The tree is an abundant bearer. 



This variety has existed for upwards of a centuiy at Castle Kennedy, N.B., and 

 has not yet been identified with any other sort. 



