Soui4 Cherries. 



475 



the flesh nearly colorless and only moderately sour. The tree is an 

 upright vase-like grower. 



This variety is supposed to be the Montmorency 07'dinaire of the 

 French, but Leroy, the leading contemporaneous French authority 

 {Dictionnaire de Pomologie), knows only one variety under this 

 name, which is sold by " some nurserymen, " and it is the same as 

 the variety Hdtive (i. e.. Early), which is very like the cherry known 

 in this country as the Early Richmond. The real Mo7it7norericy 

 Leroy considers to be indentical with the Early Richmond of 



78. — Montmorency, 



English and American writers, although his description and figure 

 of it make such association impossible. As nearly as I can deter- 

 mine, the Montmorency of western New York is the one which 

 Leroy figures as Montmorency, and not the Montmorency ordinaire. 

 There is still a third French Montmorency, the Montmorency a gros 

 fruit (i. e., the Large-fruited Montmorency), better known as Short- 



