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THE CHERRY. 



Fruit large, heart-shaped, dai'k purplish red. Flesh fii-m, j uicy, sweet. 

 Tiipe 15th to last of Jvily. 



Red Jacket. 



One of Prof. Kirtland's seedlings. A free- 

 growing, rather spreading, late, and produc- 

 tive variety. Very profitable for market. 



Fruit large, regular, obtuse heart-shaped. 

 Color amber, mostly covered with light red. 

 Flesh half tender, juicy, good but not rich 

 flavor. Stalk long, slender, in a moderate 

 basin, ilipe about the time of Downer's 

 Red. 



Remington. 



Eemington White Heart. Remington Heart. 



Fruit small, heart-shaped. Skin yellow, 

 rarely with a faint tinge of red on one side. 

 Flesh yellowish, dry, and somewhat bitter. 

 Middle and last of August. 



Richardson. 



Bed Jacket. Raised by J. R. Richardson, Boston. Tree 



vigorovis, productive. 

 Fruit large, heart-shaped, dark red, inclining to black. Flesh deep 

 red, half tender, juicy, sweet. Good. Last of June. 



Rival. 



An English variety. Its principal value being from its period of 

 late maturity. Tree vigorous, productive. 



Fruit medium, obtuse heart-shape, compressed one side. Suture 

 distinct. Skin purplish black, or black. Flesh firm, sweet. Good. 

 August. 



Rivers's Early Amber. 



Raised by Thomas Rivers, England. 



Fruit medium size, heart-shaped, prolific, a sub-vai'iety of old Early 

 WTiite Heart, but not as early. 



Rivers's Early Heart. 



Raised by Thomas Rivers, England. 



Fruit medium size, heart-shaped, ripening just after Belle d'Or- 

 leans. Very much inferior. 



