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Big Ditch (Tingle Nurs., Pittsville, Maryland, Cat. p. 19. Fall 1957)— 

 leaves good green color; heavy annual fruiter with large fruit. 



Big Leaf (Wister and others, Holly Soc. Amer. Bui. 6, p. 22. 1953, 

 without descr.) — orig. by E. Dilatush. 



Big Mack (J. N. Evans, Holly Letter 31, p. 4. 1968, without descr.). 



Big Red (E. Dilatush, Robbinsville, New Jersey, Cat. 1952) — dense; 

 leaves large, dark green, retains color under adverse conditions; fruit 

 large, profuse. Wister and others, Holly Soc. Amer. Bui. 6, p. 22. 1953, 

 without descr. — introd. and select. 1937 by E. Dilatush. Amer. Assoc. 

 Nurs. Registr. No. 511, 1956, by E. Dilatush — leaves dark, almost black 

 green; fruit bright red; female orig. in southern New Jersey. Angelica 

 Nurs., Mohnton, Pennsylvania, Cat. 1956 — leaves large, heavy. Galle 

 Natl. Hort. Mag. 36(1): 21. 1957 — leaves very dark green; fruit im- 

 mense, red. 



Bill Combs (Hume, Natl. Hort. Mag. 26(3): 166. 1947)— cylindrical; 

 leaves dark green, beautiful; fruit good; select. 1947 by W. C. Frierson 

 near Bristol, Virginia, in Green Spring community, at about 1,800-foot 

 elev. 



Birdsnest (Wister and others, Holly Soc. Amer. Bui. 6, p. 22. 1953, 

 without descr.) — select. 1929 and introd. 1948 by E. Dilatush, Robbins- 

 ville, New Jersey. 



Bittersweet (E. Dilatush, Robbinsville, New Jersey, Cat. 1942)— 

 leaves large, dark green, flat; heavy bearer with orange fruit in October, 

 turning red in winter; orig. Massachusetts; select. Boyce Thompson 

 Institute, Yonkers, New York, by P. W. Zimmerman. Hume, Natl. 

 Hort. Mag. 26(3) : 166. 1947 — leaves elliptic, dark green, keeled, medium 

 size; fruit ovoid, medium, glossy, orange to orange red; hardy and bears 

 heavily. Annual bearing. 



BrviNS (de Wilde's Rhodo-Lake Nurs., Bridge ton, New Jersey, Cat. 

 Fall 1956, as bivinsi, without descr.). Proc. 83d Ann. Convention Amer. 

 Assoc. Nurserymen, p. 100. 1958, without descr. — Amer. Assoc. 

 Registr. No. 606, 1959, by de Wilde's Rhodo-Lake Nurs., Bridgeton, 

 New Jersey. Pyramidal, free branching; leaves dark green; fruit bright 

 red; seedling select. 1952 and introd. 1954 by de Wilde's Nurs.; hardy 

 zone 5 to 6. Misspelled as Bivinsi. 



Black Beauty (E. Dilatush, Robbinsville, New Jersey, Cat. 1952)— 

 dense, upright, slow growing; leaves dark green to black green; hardy 

 to New England; male. Wister and others, Holly Soc. Amer. Bui. 6, 

 p. 22. 1953, without descr.— select. 1929 and introd. 1948 by E. Dilatush. 



Bladen Maiden (Hume, Holly Letter 31, p. 12. 1968, without descr.). 

 Select, and named by J. D. Rankin, Salisbury, North Carolina; orig. 

 from an old estate called "Oakland" overlooking the Cape Fear River, 

 Bladen County, North Carolina; fruit Saffron Yellow (7), without blush 



