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Bough, Early Sweet. Color, yellow; form, roundisli, 

 conical ovate ; size, 1 ; use, table ; CLuality, 2 ; season, July 

 and August. 



Eemaeks. — Jl fine sugary variety. The tree is a com- 

 pact grower, and is rather a shy bearer. Subject to fall. 

 When really ripe is fine, but never much flavor, beside 

 the sweet. Exhibited by several members of the Cincin- 

 nati Horticultural Society. Committee on Fruit decide it 

 "a fine saccharine variety." 



BoxFOKD. — Color, red striped ; form, compressed ; size, 

 2 ; use, table; quality, 2; season, August, or early in Sept, 



Eemaeks. — Superior to most. Tender, pleasant, but 

 transient, and lacks character. 



Brabant Bellflower. Color, yellow and red ; form, 

 roundish oblong ; size, 1 to 2 ; use, kitchen ; quality, 2 to 

 3; season, October to February. 



Eemarks. — Sharp, sub-acid. Handsome and striking 

 jn appearance. Almost unworthy of cultivation, too much 

 like Pennock. Its fine appearance will sell it in market, 

 until, like many others of this kind, its real qualities, and 

 those of better, are more known. '• Little known in 

 Ohio." — Trans. Ohio Pom. Society. (See Appendix, 17.) 



Bracken, synonymous with White Juneating, and Juneat- 

 ing. Color, pale yellow, sometimes a faint blush; form, 

 flattish round; size, 3; use, table; quality, 2; season, 

 early in July. 



Eemarks. — Pretty good for the kitchen. In south- 

 eastern Ohio a favorite early apple ;' also in Virginia ; 

 elsewhere, little known. An old foreign variety, popular 

 in some sections for its earliness. Eipens a little before 

 Yellow Harvest. Growth, upright; rather stout; pro- 

 ductive. 



