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sweet and the other with acrid fruit. The sweet variety is available for the 
table raw, the other useful for preserves. 
Avocapo—see Persea gratissima. 
Banana—see Musa sapientum. 
BaNANA, CHINESE—see Musa Cavendishii. 
BANANA, DWARF—see Musa Cavendishii. 
BARBERRY—See Berberis. 
BEAR-BERRY—Ssee Arctostaphylos. 
BERBERRY—see Berberis. 
BrerGamot—see Citrus aurantium. 
BENINCASA. 
B. CeERIFERA Savi. An annual, bearing a large edible gourd. Native 
of India, China, Polynesia and the Philippines. 
Berperis (Berberidacez). 
The barberries are handsome evergreen shrubs, bearing an edible, acid- 
ulous fruit, useful for preserves, and in some varieties credited with medic- 
inal virtues. The bark dyes a fine vellow. Many species worthy of culti- 
vation, among them the following native to California (except B. vulgaris): 
B. aquinirotium. False Oregon grape. West American. Round, acid 
fruit, fine for tarts and pies. 
B. nervosa. A larger fruit, roundish, sour, indigenous to California, 
and fine for cooking. 
B. prnnata. The Mexican LENYA AMARILLA; a fruit a third of an inch 
in diameter and pleasant to the taste. San Francisco, Cal., southward. 
B. vuuGaris. The most commonly cultivated barberry. 
Brva—see Eriobotrya japonica. 
BLACKBERRY—See Rubus fruticosus. 
Borassus (Palmacee). 
B. mruroricus Martius. A gigantic African palm, sometimes even 37 
feet in circumference, with leaves 12 feet across. The sap forms a kind of 
palm wine. The edible part of the fruit is yellow, stringy, and of a fruity 
flavor. 
B. FLABELLIFORMIS Linne. Enormous quantities of sugar are produced 
in India from the sap of this noble palm, which attains a hight of 100 feet 
and an age of more than 200 years. The pulp of the fruit serves for food. 
BRABEJUM. | 
‘B. STELLATIFOLIUM Linne. A South African shrub, bearing nuts, edible 
after roasting. 
BrBADFRUIT—See Artocarpus. 
Carop—see Ceratonia siliqua. 
Carya (Juglandacee). 
Trees with hard and tough wood, ineluding the hickory, shagbark wal- 
nut, pecan, etc. C. atpaisatall and handsome tree, producing the deli- 
cious shell-bark hickory nuts. C. Amara is a graceful tree bearing an in- 
t ensely bitter nut with a thin shell. 


