CHERRIES IX igoo. 



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Fig. 1S66. MoRELLO Tree. 



siderable height with Httle spread of branches. 

 The leaves hang down in somewhat fasti- 

 giate habit, and the fruit is borne all along 

 the branches, well hidden among the leaves. 

 The Reine Hortense is by far the finest Duke, 

 but is so different in habit and so immensely 

 superior in size and appearance to the others 

 named, that it cannot be called a typical 

 Duke ; indeed all these divisions are more 

 or less arbitrary and shade more or less into 

 each other. Fig. 1857 shows the bearing 



habit of this variety ; the cherries do not 

 hang in bunches, but in ones and twos, an 

 excusable fault in a cherry so large and 

 fine as this one is. 



The members of the Board of Control of 

 our fruit stations visited our Orchard on the 

 3rd of July, and the general verdict was that 

 the Hortense with its load of fruit, was alone 

 worth a journey to see. Our frontispiece, 

 from a photograph by Miss Brodie on the 

 6th of July, well represents a fruiting branch 



