68 Ci atalogue of Varieties. 
1815. Fruit conical, dark dingy. purple; seeds little sunken; 
flesh buttery and high flavored. A great bearer, and early. 
BLack Ping. (Syn. Read's Black Pine.) Originated with William 
H.. Reed, Canada West. Large, short conical, nearly black, 
glossy; seeds yellow, slightly imbedded; flesh firm; of excel- 
lent flavor. Late. Fig. in Hort. XIV. 560. 
Brack PrINcE (Wilmot). Originated in England in 1820, and 
known as Wilmot’s Black Imperial. Seedling of Keens’s Impe- 
rial. Medium size, spherical, hairy, very dark violet; seeds 
slightly sunken; flesh solid, very firm,-rich dull scarlet, with 
dark juice, a small core, and peculiar flavor. 
Brack Prince (Cuthill). (Syn. Black Imperial, Malcolm's Aber- 
deen Seedling.) Sent out in 1848, A prodigious bearer, with 
medium-sized, long conical, dark colored fruit; sour in dull 
weather, dry and middling in hot. Said to force well. Fig. in 
Alb. de Pom. IV. 78. ’ 
Brack RosEBERRY (Williams). An old English variety, a cross 
of the Roseberry with the Early Pitmaston Black. Fruit of 
good size, bluntly conical, dark purple red; seeds sunken; flesh 
dark red, solid, buttery, and juicy. Fig. in Pom. Mag I. 20. 
BLANCHE D’ORLEANS. An Alpine strawberry; described as 
larger than the Old White Alpine. 
BiusH PINE (?). 
BONTE DE St. JULIEN (Carré). A very productive and delicious 
berry. Fruit medium to large, brillfant, but rather dark red; 
flesh red, very sweet and high flavored. I have fruited this 
kind, and esteem it highly. ; 
*Bostock. (Syn. Rostock, Rostock Seedling, Rostock Pine, Wel- 
lington, Cone, Byram, Caledonian, Vernon's, Montague's, Pro- 
lific Bath, New Bath, Whitley's Pine, Beattte’s Seedling. 
Erroneously, Bath Scarlet, Chinese, Red Chili, Devonshire 
Chili.) A somewhat celebrated English variety. An abun- 
dant bearer. Fruit very large, nearly round, with a small neck; 
dark shining red on the sunny side; light scarlet on the other; 
seeds prominent; flesh pale scarlet, coarse, hollow; no flavor. 
Boston Beauty. A rather new: seedling strawberry, said to 
have originated near Boston. I have seen fruit of this variety 
raised by Mr. Talbot, of South Dedham, Mass., which was large, 
handsome, and good, but it seemed a little soft, and somewhat 
resembled Rivers’s Eliza. 
Boston Pine (Hovey). (Syn. Bartlett.) A cross of the Grove 
End Scarlet and Keens’s Seedling. Medium to large, obtusely 
conical, light crimson; flesh light colored, sweet, and excellent. 
