Descriptions of Select Varieties of Cherries. 399 



suture on oue side, and indented at the apex : Skin., dark 

 shining red, when fully mature mottled with a deeper shade : 

 Stem, long, about one and a half inches, slender, and deeply- 

 sunk in a roundish cavity: Flesh, light red, tender, and 

 slightly adhering to the stone : Juice, abundant, subacid, rich 

 and high flavored : Stone, medium size, oval, compressed. 

 Ripe from the middle to the end of July, about a fortnight 

 before the Late Duke. 



The fruit is borne, like the Late Duke, in pairs and threes, 

 on a common peduncle, which is about a quarter of an inch 

 to the fork and rather slender. Tree, vigorous, rather more 

 spreading than the May Duke, and with thicker and larger 

 foliage. 



3. Lemercier. Migazine of Horticulture, Vol. XIL 



The Lemercier (/o-. 35,) is a new French variety of very 

 recent introduction; and a brief account of 

 which will be found in our last volume, 

 (p. 343.) It nearly resembles the Late 

 Duke, ripening about the same time, and 

 of about the same quality. The original 

 tree is said to have been found in Bra- 

 bant, by M Lemercier, after whom it was 

 named, and was introduced to Paris by 

 M. Noisette, in 1835. Our tree was received 

 from France in 1842, and bore, for the first 

 time, last season ; the present year, the 

 trees were quite full of fruit, although only 

 four years old, and standing in the nursery 

 row. The fruit was ripe the latest of any 

 cherry, and, but for the high wind and rain 

 of the fifth of August, would have remained ^^v 35? Lanerder 

 in parfection till the present time. Cherry. 



Fruit, large, one inch in diameter, roundish, and rather 

 obtuse, with a shallow suture on one side, ending in a distinct 

 prominent paint : S/cin, light shining red, of a somewhat trans- 

 parent appsarance, and marbled with a deeper shade : Stem, 

 rather long, about one and a half inches, moderately slender, 

 and deeply inserted in a large, broad, deep hollow : Flesh, 



