/8 x 7/8; form ovate; color
grayish-brown with a few purplish-black markings about the
apex; base rounded, tipped; apex abruptly short-pointed,
slightly four-angled; shell brittle, thin, .8 mm.; partitions
thin; cracking quality excellent; kernel full, plump, bright
straw-colored, sutures narrow, moderately deep, secondary
sutures slightly marked; texture firm, compact fine grained;
flavor sweet, delicate, pleasant; quality very good and a good
keeper.

Described from specimens received from Mr. Theo. Bechtel, Ocean
Springs, Miss.

ATLANTA. Size medium, 1-7/8 x 7/8 x 11/16 inches; ovate,
compressed; color dull gray liberally specked with small, dark
dots, splashed with purplish markings from middle to apex; base
sloping, blunt-pointed; apex sloping, short-pointed; shell
brittle, moderately thin; partitions rather thick, corky;
cracking quality quite good; kernel full, plump, sutures narrow
of medium depth, secondary sutures lacking; color light
yellowish-brown, bright; texture solid, compact; flavor sweet,
good; quality very good.

Originated by G. M. Bacon, DeWitt, Ga., and first catalogued
about 1900.

BACON. (Syn.: _Bacon's Choice_.) Size small, 1-1/4 x 7/8
inches; rounded, compressed toward the apex; color dull
brownish-gray, thickly dotted with dark specks, liberally
splashed with purplish-brown markings toward the apex; base
rounded; apex abruptly blunt-pointed; shell thin, .85 mm.;
cracking quality excellent; partitions thin, papery; kernel
roundish, bright, light brownish-yellow, plump, full, smooth,
sutures broad, of medium depth; flavor sweet, nutty, good;
quality very good.

A small pecan of good quality, originated by G. M. Bacon,
DeWitt, Ga., and introduced by him in 1900.

[Illustration: FIG. 2. Money-maker, Post, San Saba, Half Kernel of
Bacon]

BARTOW. Medium size, thin shell and fine flavor. (Bacon's Cat.,
page 29, 1904.)

BEAUTY. Illustrated in "The Pecan and How to Grow It." (Stuart
Pecan Co., 1893, p. 59, fig. 5.)

BELLE. Medium, ovate, quality very good. (J. V. Munson, Farm
and Ranch, Dec. 3, 1904, p. 2.)

BIEDIGER. Listed in "Nut Culture in the United States," U. S.
Dept. Agr., Div. Pomology, 64, 1896.

BILOXI. (W. R. Stuart, Ocean Springs, Miss.) Medium size,
cylindrical, p