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THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



OSCEOLA. Fruit, above medium size, heart-shaped, and with a 

 deep suture on one side. Skin, dark purplish red, almost black. Stalk, 

 about two inches long. Flesh, liver-coloured, tender, very juicy, rich, 

 and sweet. 

 'Ripe in the middle and end of July. 



OSTHEIM (Ostheimer Kirsche ; Ostheimer Weichsel). Fruit, large, 

 round, flattened at both ends, and very slightly compressed on the side. 

 Skin, dark red, changing as it ripens to dark purplish red. Stalk, 

 from an inch and a half to two inches long, placed in a wide and 

 shallow depression. Flesh, dark red, tender, juicy, with a pleasant, 

 sweet, and sub-acid flavour. Stone, small, roundish oval. 



An excellent preserving cherry, not so acid as the Morello ; it is 

 ripe the end of July. The tree forms a thick, bushy head, with long, 

 slender, and pendulous shoots ; it is an abundant bearer, and better 

 suited for a dwarf than a standard. 



Ostheimer Kirsche. See Ostheim. 

 Ostheimer Weichsel. See Ostheim. 

 Ounce Cherry. See Tobacco-leaved. 



OX HEART (Lion's Heart ; Bullocks Heart ; Ochsenherzkirsclie). 

 Fruit, large, obtuse heart-shaped, flattened on one side, which is 

 marked with a suture. Skin, shining, dark purplish red. Stalk, two 

 inches long, placed in a shallow depression. Flesh, somewhat firm, 

 dark red, with a brisk and pleasant flavour, which is considerably richer 

 when the fruit is highly ripened. Stone, roundish oval. 



A large, handsome, and very excellent cherry ; it ripens in the end 

 of July. 



PARAMDAM (Baramdam). Small and round, not quite half an 

 inch in diameter. Skin, pale red. Stalk, an inch long. Flesh, pale, 

 tender, with an agreeable and lively acidity. 



It ripens in the end of July. The tree is of very diminutive 

 growth ; one in my possession, not less than 100 years old, being 

 little more than seven feet high, and the stem not so thick as a man's 

 arm. 



This is a variety of the native Cerasus vulqaris. It was first brought to my 

 notice by a reference to Hitt's "Treatise of Fruit Trees." and on application to 

 my friend, the late Rev. Henry Manton, of Sleafoid, be was so good as to procure 

 me trees from the very holt to which. Hitt refers in the following He-count of it : 



"I have near Sleaford in Lincolnshire met with a different kind of cherry to 

 any of the former ; it is called the Baramdam, which is the name of the place 

 where it grows, in a perfect wild manner, so that not any one can give account of 

 thejr being planted. Mr. Pattison, the proprietor of the land, and present in- 

 habitant, is now (1755) about sixty years of age, who told me their number was 

 greatly increased in his time ; and he further added tbat, tlie same land had been 

 the property of his father and grandfather, both of whom he knew veiy well, but 

 neither of them was ever able to give him any account of its being planted. And 

 I am by just reasons prompt to say there is no marks of art in any part of the 



