CHERRIES. 301 



GUIGNE TRES PRECOCE. Fruit, rather small, and not quite 

 medium sized, obtuse heart-shaped, and rather uneven in its outline. 

 Skin, quite black. Stalk, an inch and a half long, slender, deeply 

 inserted in a rather wide cavity. Flesh, very tender, juicy, and of 

 good flavour. Juice, coloured. 



A very early black Gean ; a week earlier than Early Purple Gean, 

 and ripe in the middle and end of June. In an orchard-house it is 

 ripe in the end of May and beginning of June. 



Guignier a Feuilles do Tabac. See Tobacco-leaved. 

 Guignier u, Rameaux Pendants. See All Saints. 

 Guldemonds-kers. See Gros Gobet. 

 Guldewagens-kers. See Gros Gobet. 



HARRISON'S HEART (White Bigarreau ; Harrison's Duke). 

 Fruit, medium sized, heart-shaped, flattened near the stalk, on the 

 side which is marked with a shallow suture, which is not indented, but 

 terminated by a small point or nipple, as in some of the peaches, where 

 the style -point is. Skin, at first of a pale yellowish colour, thickly 

 speckled and covered with red, but as it ripens it is completely over- 

 spread, and thickly mottled and spotted with blood red, except at the 

 apex, where the red is not so thick. Flesh, firm, but less so than the 

 Bigarreau ; yellowish white, rayed with white, juicy and well- flavoured, 

 but not so rich as the Bigarreau. 



This has for some years been confounded with the Bigarreau. The true Har- 

 rison's Heart is now very seldom met with, and the opinion has gone abroad that 

 it is synonymous with the Bigarreau. The characters, however, are very distinct ; 

 the Bigarreau is of a roundish heart-shape, while the other is of a true heart-shape ; 

 the apex of the Bi^arreau is pitted, that of this is nippled ; the colour of the 

 Bigarreau is pale, and only dark red next the sun ; this is almost entirely over- 

 spread with red, and spotted with blood red. The stalk of Harrison's Heart is 

 more slender than that of the Bigarreau ; the latter ripens in the second week in 

 July, the former in the second of August. 



Forsyth gives an apocryphal account of this being brought from India by 

 General Harrison, who went out as Governor of St. George in 1710, and returned 

 home in 1719, bringing this cherry with him. 



Hative de Lyon. See Early Lyons. 

 Herefordshire Heart. See Gascoigne. 

 Hertfordshire Black. See Corone. 



Hildesheimer Ganz Spate Knorpelkirsche. See Bigarreau de Hil- 

 desheim. 



Hildesheimer Spate Herzkirsche. See Bigarreau de Hildcsheim. 



HOGG'S BLACK GEAN. Fruit, medium sized, obtuse heart- 

 shaped. Skin, black and shining. Stalk, an inch and a half long. 

 Flesh, dark, very lender, riculy flavoured, and very sweet. 



Ripe in the beginning of July. 



