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flowers which appear at the usual season are produced in the most showy profusion being 

 from one to one and one-half inches in diameter ; they are composed of about forty white 

 petals disposed in the form of a rose, with about thirty stamens and a large, abortive pistil. 

 The nttmerous double flowers, resembling clusters of small, white roses, make the tree a 

 very useful ornamental. 

 Large Griotte. P. cerasus. i. Prince Pom. Maw. 2:148. 1832. 



Large Griotte resembles Griotte Commune but is larger and earlier; skin glossy 

 black; flesh dark red, firm, sweet, pleasing. 

 Large Guindolle. Species? i. Prince Pom. Maw. 2:149, 150. 1832. 



Leaves are deeply indented, double- toothed ; fruit large, flattened at the ends, pale 

 red; flesh white, melting, juicy; ripens at the end of Jime or beginning of July. 

 Large Heart-shaped Bigarreau. P. avium, i. Prince Pmi. Man. 2:129. 1832. 2. 

 Elliott Fr. Book 199 fig. 1854. 



Bigarreau Gros Monstrueux. 3. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 46. 1831. 



Bigarreau Gros Coeuret. 4. Ibid. 46. 1831. 5. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 453. 1869. 



Monstrous Heart. 6. Kogg Fruit Man. 78, 87. 1866. 



A variety of French origin which was never extensively grown in America. Tree 

 strong, vigorous, productive; fruit large, roundish-cordate; suture often raised; stem vari- 

 able, set in a shallow cavity; skin dark, glossy red, nearly black, surface uneven; flesh 

 firm but tender, reddish, pleasant, moderately jmcy; good in quality; stone large, oval; 

 ripens the first of July. 

 Large Late Red Bigarreau. P. avium, i. Prince Pom. Man. 2:128, 129. 1832. 



Bigarreau a gros Fruit Rouge Tardij. 2. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 46. 1831. 



The fruit is somewhat smaller and much later in maturity than that of the Large 

 Red Bigarreau. The color is dark red on the shaded side and on the other a brownish-red, 

 almost black which has given it the name Black Bigarreau; flesh firm, juicy and of 

 excellent flavor. 

 Large Spanish. Species? i. Miller Card. Diet. 1:1754. 



Mentioned in the reference given. 

 Laroses Glaskirsche. P. cerasus. i. ///. Handb. 177 fig., 178. i860. 



Larose. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 5:352 fig., 353. 1877. 



This cherry was raised from seed in 1826 by M. Larose, of Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. 

 Tree vigorous, productive; fruit usually borne in pairs, large, obtuse-cordate; sides com- 

 pressed; suture shallow; stem medium in length, set in a large, deep cavity; skin glossy, 

 tough, mottled with pale red becoming darker; flesh yellowish, tender, slightly fibrous, 

 juicy, mildly acid; pit rather large, plump, oval, flattened at the base; ripens the last of 

 July. 



Late Bigarreau. P. avium, i. Horticulturist 2:124. 1847-48. 2, Cole Am. Fr. Book 

 235. 1849. 3. Elliott Fr. Book igg. 1854. 



Late Bigarreau was raised in 1842 by Professor J. P. Kirtland, Cleveland, Ohio. 

 Tree vigorous, roimd-topped, very productive; fruit large, obtuse-cordate, occasionally 

 somewhat angular; stem long; skin attractive yellow, occasionally nearly overspread with 

 crimson-red, delicately blotched or mottled; flesh yellowish, with distinct radiating lines. 



