HEART CHERRIES. 



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impossible to distinguish any difference in the fruit except that 

 it ripens a few days earlier. The leaves, however, are larger 

 and of a lighter green skin, and waved on the margin, and the 

 tree comes early into bearing. The thin, light brown bark, on 

 the young trees, resembles that of the Birch. This native va- 

 riety has been called New Mayduke by some, but it has no re- 

 semblance to a Duke Cherry. 



14. DOWNER'S LATE. 



Downer. Man. 

 Downer's late Red. 



This valuable late cherry was 

 raised by Samuel Downer, Esq., an 

 ardent cultivator of Dorchester, near 

 Boston. It is a very regular and 

 great bearer, ripens about a week 

 after the cherry season, and hangs 

 for a considerable time on the tree. 

 It is a delicious, melting fruit, and de- 

 serves a place in every garden. 



Fruit of medium size, roundish, 

 heart-shaped, inclining to oval. Skin 

 very smooth, of a soft but lively red. 

 mottled with a little amber in the 

 shade. Stalk inserted with a very 

 slight depression. Fruit borne thick- 

 ly, in clusters. Flesh tender, melt- 

 ing, with a sweet and luscious fla- 

 vour. Ripens from the 4th to the 

 10th of July. 



Fig. 65. Downer's Late. 



15. EARLY WHITE HEART. 



Arden's Early White Heart. 



White Heart. Coxe. Prince's Pom. Man. 



White Heart, 1 



Dredge's Early White Heart, 1 .7^- ? 



White Transparent, 



Amber Heart. J 



An old variety, long cultivated in this country, and one 

 of the earliest, ripening before the Mayduke. At Ardenia, the 

 seat of R. Arden, Esq., opposite West Point, on the Hudson, 

 there are many large trees of this variety, received by him 

 originally from France, which are most abundant and regular 

 bearers and we do not perceive that in this part of the coun- 

 iry this cherry is open to Coxe's accusation of being a bad 



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