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BIGARREAU NOIR HATIF. Fruit, about medium size, small 

 for a Bigarreau ; obtuse beart-shaped, compressed on botb sides, and 

 flattened at the stalk, and slightly marked with a suture on one side. 

 Skin, black, smooth, and shining. Flesh, firm, very dark red, with 

 deep- coloured juice, sweet, with a somewhat bitter flavour. 



Ripe the middle of July, before the other Bigarreaus. The tree is 

 an excellent bearer. 



Bigarreau Noir Monstrueux Pleureur. See Weeping Black Bigarreau. 

 Bigarreau Papal. See Bigarreau Reverchon. 

 Bigarreau Pleureur. See Weeping Black Bigarreau. 

 Bigarreau Radowesnitzer. See Bohemian Black Bigarreau. 



BIGARREAU REVERCHON (Bigarreau Papal). Fruit, large, 

 obtuse heart-shaped, often uneven in its outline, marked with a dis- 

 tinct suture on one side. Skin, smooth, shining, tough, and mem- 

 branous, at first of a yellowish white, striped and stained with red, 

 but when perfectly ripened deep purplish red. Stalk, stout, green, 

 an inch and a half long, inserted in a deep and irregular cavity. 

 Flesh, with a rosy tint, firm and breaking, richly flavoured, but not 

 very juicy. 



A very excellent cherry ; ripe in the end of July and August. 



It is an Italian variety, introduced to Lyons by M. Paul Reverchon, brother of 

 tbe excellent treasurer of the Congre's Poraologique. 



Bigarreau Ribaucourt. See Bigarreau. 



Bigarreau Rouge. See Belle de Rocmont. 



Bigarreau Royal. See Bigarreau. 



Bigarreau Tardif. See Bigarreau. 



Bigarreau Tardif de Hildesheim. Se Bigarreau de Hildesheim. 



Black Bud of Buckinghamshire. See Cor one. 



Black Caroon. See Corone. 



Black Circassian. See Black Tartarian. 



BLACK EAGLE. Fruit, large, growing in clusters of two and 

 three, produced in large bunches on the spurs ; roundish heart-shaped, 

 considerably depressed, so much so as to be almost roundish oblate. 

 Skin, of a very deep purple, becoming almost quite black when highly 

 ripened. Stalk, an inch and a half long, rather slender. Flesh, 

 tender, deep purple, with a very rich, sweet, and most delicious flavour. 

 Stone, small and veined. 



A very richly flavoured and excellent cherry ; ripe the beginning of 



