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Belle de Choist. — We have given this variety a place, be- 

 cause in point of flavor it is one of the Lest if not the best of this 

 section; but it is such a very shy bearer in all our experience and 

 observation, that we cannot advise any one to plant it. Yet when 

 the fruit can be had there is no cherry more delicious; it is of 

 medium size, bright red in the sun, pale amber in the shade; 

 flesh very tender, melting, juicy, and of a most delicate and 

 agreeable flavor. It ripens about the first of July. 



Belle Magnipique. — The chief excellence of this variety is 

 its lateness of ripening, it being in use about the middle of 

 August. The fruit is of good size, bright red, with a juicy, ten- 

 der flesh, of a sprightly, sub-acid flavor. It is desirable for cook- 

 ing, and when allowed to remain on the tree untd very ripe, is 

 a pretty good dessert fruit. The tree is moderately vigorous in 

 growth and an abundant bearer. "We have found this variety ta 

 be exceedingly liable to the attacks of the curculio in our grounds, 

 we think the most so of all the cherries. 



Kentish. — Early Richmond. — Common Red. — Pie Cherry. 

 — Montm.orency. — An old European variety introduced by the 

 early settlers, and coming so nearly true from seed and yet some- 

 times varying so much that from all these shades of variation 

 there has arisen considerable confusion. "We notice that Mr. 

 Downing, in his exhaustive work on the frmts and fruit trees of 

 America, makes a second kind, which he calls the Late Kentish, 

 but we have been unable to find any really permanent and dis- 

 tinguishing differences, so imperceptibly do these all glide into 

 one another. Those that seem to ripen earliest will hang on the 

 tree and continue as long as the latest, while in general appear- 

 ance, size, color, flavor, productiveness and hardihood they seem 

 to be substantially the same. Undoubtedly, taking all things into 

 consideration, it is the most valuable of all the cherries that can 

 be grown in the Dominion of Canada. In the first place, it is the 

 most hardy variety, capable of enduring a very severe degree of 

 cold, and of accommodating itself to any variety of sod, from the 

 stiffest clay to the lightest sand. Then it is a very constant and 



