CHERRIES. 281 



thin bright red next the sun. Flesh, yellowish white, tender, juicy, and 

 rich. 



Ripe in the beginning and middle of June. One of the earliest and 

 richest flavoured cherries. 



Belle de Petit Brie. See Eeine Hortense. 

 Belle de Prapeau. See Heine Hortense. 



BELLE DE ROCMOXT (Bigarrtau Coubur de Chair ; Biyarreau 

 Gros Cceuret; Biynrreau liouye ; Cceuret ; Occur de P'ujeon; Schone von 

 Eocmont ; Buntes Tanbenhcn : Mnwlin: Biyarrenn a yrns fruit blanc ; 

 Jiothe Sjiuniwhe). Fruit, of medium size, not so large as the Bigar- 

 reau ; obtuse heart-shaped, compressed on one side, which is marked 

 with a broad and deep suture. Skin, thin and shining, of a pale yel- 

 lowish white, with a few red dots on the shaded side, but marbled with 

 pale and dark red on the side next the sun. Stalk, pretty stout, two 

 inches or more in length. Flesh, white, rather tender and juicy for a 

 Bigarreau, and of a sweet and excellent flavour. 



It is ripe in the end of July. The tree is hardy, pendulous in its 

 growth, and an excellent bearer. The fruit is not of so rich a flavour 

 as the Bigarreau ; it is earlier, and the tree being an abundant bearer 

 it may be profitably grown as a market fruit. 



Belle de Sceaux. See Belle Magnifique. 

 Belle de Spa. See Belle Magnifique. 

 Belle Polonaise. See Griotte de Klejwoic. 

 Belle Supreme. See Eeine Hortense. 



BIGARREAU (Grajfion; Turkey Heart; Italian Heart; West's 

 White Heart; Bigarreau tardif ; Biijarreau tjros ; }>i;/arreau Eoyal ; 

 Yellow Spanish). Fruit, very large, obtuse heart-shaped, considerably 

 flattened at the stalk, on the side marked with a shallow suture, 

 and slightly depressed at the apex, less heart-shaped than most of the 

 other Bigarreaux. Skin, finely marked with a bright red cheek, which 

 is speckled with amber where exposed to the sun, and shading off to a 

 paler colour interspersed with crimson dots to the shaded side, which 

 is of a pale amber, changing to brownish yellow when fully ripe. Stalk, 

 from an inch and a half to two inches long, stout, and inserted in a 

 flat and considerable depression. Flesh, of a very pale yellow, very 

 firm, crackling and juicy, with a rich, sweet, and delicious flavour. 



A cherry of first-rate excellence, ripe in the middle and end of 

 July. The tree is exceedingly vigorous, very hardy, an abundant bearer 

 even when young, and admirably adapted for orchard planting. 



Among the French there are many varieties of the Bigarreau, several of which 

 are mentioned by Duhamel, but there is none of them which can be identified with 

 this unless it is the Bigarreau a gros fruit rouge. Forsvth gives the Cerisier 



