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are very attractive, being large for the kind, heart-shaped, of a handsome, 

 clear, glossy dark purple color and very uniform in all characters. The 

 tree is conspicuous because of its symmetrical shape, large size, round head 

 and its many branches and branchlets. The leaves are characteristically 

 small, as are the flowers, which are further distinguished by very narrow 

 petals. The tree is hardy and productive and quite worth a place on a 

 lawn as an ornamental if not in the garden for its fruit. The variety has 

 several characters to commend it to plant-breeders. 



This variety came to light in written records in the early part of the 

 Nineteenth Century in German fruit-books under the name Saure Herz- 

 kirsche or Herzkirschweichsel and was highly recommended for its fine 

 flavor. Professor J. L. Budd of Iowa, in one of his European trips, was 

 impressed with its symmetrical habit of growth and its abundant foliage 

 where he found it growing in eastern Europe as a lawn tree. He 

 included it among his importations but it has not proved valuable in the 

 New World. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, improductive ; branches rather 

 slender, smooth except for the large, conspicuous lenticels; branchlets slender, long; leaves 

 numerous, two and three-fourths inches long, one and three-eighths inches wide, obovate 

 to oval, thin, dark green, smooth; petiole over one-half inch long, tinged with red, with 

 from one to three small, globose, greenish-yeUow or brownish glands at the base of the 

 blade; buds intermediate in size and length, usually obtuse; season of bloom late; flowers 

 one inch across; borne in scattered clusters; filaments one-fourth inch long; pistil slightly 

 shorter than the stamens, often defective. 



Fruit matures in mid-season; about three-fourths of an inch in diameter, roundish- 

 conic, slightly compressed; color very dark, dull red; stem slender, one and one-fourth 

 inches long, adhering to the fruit; skin thin, tough; flesh very dark red, with dark wine- 

 colored juice, tender, rather meaty, very astringent, sour; of poor quality; stone nearly 

 free, small, ovate, flattened, pointed, with roughish and colored surfaces. 



HILDESHEIM 



Prunus avium 



I. Prince Pom. Man. 2:131. 1832. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 196. 1854. 



Guignier a Fruit Rouge Tardif. 3. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 1:162. 1768. 



Agathe. 4. Knoop Fructologie 2:37. 1771. 



Doppelltragende Kleine Rathe Spdtkirsche. 5. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 281, 282, 283. 1819. 



Hildesheimer Ganz Spate Knorpelkirsche. 6. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 321, 322, 323. 1819. 



Late Red Guigne. 7. Prince Pom. Man. 2:113. 1832. 



Bigarreau Tardif de Hildesheim. 8. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 184. 1845. 



Merveille de September. 9. Elliott Fr. Book 210. 1854. 



Belle Agathe de Novembre. 10. Ann. Pom. Beige 3:9, PI. 1855. 



