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inches long. Flesh, tender, juicy, with a brisk sub-acid flavour, be- 

 coming mellowed the longer it hangs. 



Eipe from the middle to the end of August; and continues to hang 

 till September. 



Cceur de Pigeon. See Belle de Eocmont. 

 Common Red. See Kentish. 



CORONE (Black Coroon ; Black Orleans; Belcher's Black; Hert- 

 fordshire r>l(tck; L'D-ije Wild Black; Enylische Schwarze Kronherz- 

 hirsche ; Couronne ; Kerroon; Crown}. Fruit, rather below the medium 

 size, roundish, heart-shaped, marked on one side with a suture. Skin, 

 deep shining black. Stalk, slender, two inches long, inserted in a deep, 

 round, and narrow cavity. Flesh, dark purple, very firm, sweet, and 

 well-flavoured. 



Ripe in the end of July and beginning of August. 



A very good small cherry for orchard planting, being produced in great quan- 

 tities, and on accour t of the firmness of its flesh capable of being transmitted to a 

 distance without injury, but as a desirable variety for general purposes it cannot 

 bear comparison with many others in cultivation. About the end of July it is 

 found in enormous quantities in almost all the market towns of this country under 

 the various names of Corone, Mazzard, and Merries, although these two latter 

 names are also applicable to other varieties. In Ellis' s "Agriculture Improved," 

 for July, 1745, there is a long account of the Corone Cherry, part of which is as 

 follows: "At Gaddesden we- were in a great measure strangers to this cherry 

 thirty years ago ; for I believe I may be positive of it that I was the first who 

 introduced this cherry into our parish about the year 1725, not but that it was 

 growing in a few other places in Hertfordshire before then, as at Northchurch, a 

 village situate in the extremes! wes-tern part of that comry, where this fruit grew 

 on standard trees in orchards, and brought great profit to their planters and 

 owners, because in that time the Kerroon cherry was scarce and rare." It is 

 much grown in the counties of Buckingham and Hertford. 



Crown. See Carnation. 

 Crown. See Corone. 

 Curan. See Gascoigne. 

 D'Aremberg. See Rdne Hortense. 

 D'Orange. See Carnation. 

 Dauphine. See Belle de Choisy. 



DECHENAUT. Fruit, large, roundish heart-shaped, broad at the 

 stalk, rather flattened, and marked with a faint suture on one side. 

 Skin, bright cornelian red, and shining, becoming darker red when 

 quite ripe. The stalk is one inch and a half to one inch and three- 

 quarters long, iuserted in a wide and deep depression. Flesh, tender 

 and succulent, with the May Duke flavour. 



This is a fine large cherry, ripening about the same time as the 

 May Duke, and well worth cultivating. 



