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quarts each. The little photograph will show the clusters on a branch of this 

 variety. 



Of the Bigarreau cherries, the leading variety for productiveness is the 

 Napoleon Bigarreau, a branch of which, as grown this year at Maplehurst, we 

 have photographed to accompany this article. This is no exceptional branch, 

 for it is the habit of this variety to load in great clusteis, a great advantage in 

 har\esting, provided the fruit is free from rot. This variety is unfortunately 

 very subject to this disease, and sometimes almost the whole crop is destroyed 

 by it. Otherwise this is the most productive of all varieties, a hundred quarts 

 being a verj- ordinary yield from a full grown tree. We add an outline of the 

 cherr}' in order to show the exact size. The skin is white, well shaded with 

 light red, and the flesh is very firm. It is one of the largest of cherries, and 

 altogether well fitted for the commercial cherr}' orchard. 



The Yellow Spanish, is another magnificent variety, often exceeding 

 in size even the Napoleon, especially when the crop is light, as indeed it 



Fig. 809. — Napoleon Bigabreac. 



