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Wendell's Mottled Bigaireau Cherry- 



prove to be what we call hard-headed^ that is, open badly, or 

 not at all, like Smith's yellow JNoisette, and Bourbon Tea. 

 Athens, Ga., Sejit. 2U, 1847. 



Art. III. WendelVs Mottled Bigarrcan Cherry ; tcith an 

 Engraving of the Fruit. By Dr. Herman Wendell, Acad- 

 emy Park, Albany, N. Y. 



Some time since, we noticed this new and fine cherry as 

 having been exhibited before the Albany and Rensselaer Hor- 

 ticultural Society in June last, where it attracted much 

 attention; and, in our September number, we announced that 

 a description of it would soon appear in 

 our pages. Owing, however, to some 

 delay, the draAving did not come to 

 hand in season, and we now have the 

 pleasure of presenting it with a correct 

 description by Dr. Wendell. 



This new and beautiful variety is the 

 produce of a seedling tree grown by 

 Dr. Wendell, of Albany. The seed 

 was of the large white Bigarreau, from 

 a garden of that city which has in it a 

 collection of the finer varieties of the 

 cherry. The seed was sown in 184U, 

 and the tree first bore a few cherries in 

 1845. Dr. Wendell's description is as 

 follows : — 



The mottled Bigarreau, {Jig. 45,) is 

 of large size, regular, obtuse-heart-shaped, dark purplish red, 

 and beautifully mottled with dark points, those points becom- 

 ing quite indistinct, however, when the fruit is fully ripe ; the 

 suture is distinctly marked with a dark line extending about 

 half way round the fruit. The stalk is about an inch and a 

 half long, somewhat stout, and set in a round and regular de- 

 pression. The flesh is firm and crisp, though not lough, but 

 juicy, liigh-flavored and rich. The fruit is ripe from the tenth 



Fig. 45. Wendell's Mottled 

 Bigarreau Cherry. 



