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1794. The tree has a close growth and with its large, wide leaves is easily recognized from 

 other light Duke cherries. The fruit is often confused with Double Glass but the color 

 is darker, the stem longer and thicker, the flavor sweeter, and the season from eight to 

 ten days later. Tree moderately vigorous; fruit large, cordate, rather obtuse, with a 

 pronounced suture extending into the cavity; stem long, set in a smooth, shallow cavity; 

 skin tough, clear purple changing to dark red; flesh yellowish-white, transparent, jiiicy, 

 not colored unless well ripened, sweetish-sour, slightly aromatic; stone of medium size, 

 globular, plump, truncate at the base ; season late. 

 Bettenburger Herzkirsche. P. am'imt. 1. ///. Handb. 65 fig., 66. i860. 



Bettenburger Schwarze Herzkirsche. 2. Truchsess-Heim Kirsdiensort. 115, 116. 1819. 



Guigne de Bettenbourg. 3. Mortillet Le Cerisier 2:301. 1866. 



This variety is a seedling of a worthless black Heart cherry, raised by Truchsess in 

 1794. Fruit very large, flattened, heart-shaped, sides compressed; stem short, set in a 

 shallow cavity; apex slightly depressed; skin tough, deep dark-brown with hght spots, 

 turning black when ripe; flesh tender, juicy, very sweet; stone almost small, plump, round- 

 ish; season the last of June in Germany. 



Bettenburger Kirsche von der Natte. P. cerasus. i. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 

 507-511. 1819. 2. Dochnahl Filhr. Obstkunde 3:61. 1858. 



A variety received by Truchsess as Kirsche von der Natte and disseminated by him 

 as such. After a few years he found that it was not true to name and to avoid further 

 confusion added the word Bettenburger. Fruit large, roundish, flattened at the base; 

 suture indistinct; stem short, slender, shallowly inserted; skin tough, dull, dark brown, 

 inclined to black; flesh dark red, juicy, aromatic, subacid; stone not large, plump; ripens 

 the middle of July in Germany. 

 Bettenburger Weichsel. P. cerasus. 1. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obstkunde 3:62, 63. 1858. 



Bettenburger Weichsel Grosser Gobet. 2. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 521, 522, 523. 

 1819. 



Bettenburger Weichsel von der Natte. 3. Liegel Syst. Anleit. 171. 1825. 



Griotte de Bettenbourg. 4. ThomasGuide Prat. 22, 194. 1876. 



This German variety came from seeds of Grosse Gobet planted by Truchsess in 1794. 

 Fruit very large, sides compressed; skin tough, dark brownish-red; flesh and juice dark, 

 pleasingly sour, improves if left on the tree; stone large, cordate, pointed. 

 Bicolor Van Mens. Species? i. Mortillet Le CmsiVr 2:99, 208. 1866. 



Fruit medium in size, slightly elongated; attractively variegated with red; of 

 mediocre quality; matures the last fortnight of Jtme. 

 Bigarreau Abbesse de Mouland. P. avium, i. Mathieu Norn. Pom. 334. 1889. 



Listed in the reference given. 

 Bigarreau Antoine Nomblot. P. avium, i. Rev. Hort. 569, 570, PI. 1912. 



In 1903, Alfred Nomblot planted what he believed to be a seed of Bigarreau Donnissen 

 but the resulting tree in many of its characters resembled Bigarreau Noir de Kruger which 

 stood near the supposed parent. A cross between these varieties might result in a dark 

 fruit similar to this. Tree vigorous, upright, very productive; frmt above medium in 

 size, cordate, attached in ones, twos and threes; stem long; skin marbled with purple 



