122 CHERRIES. 



ning of June, about the time of the Mayduke, or soon after ; 

 the tree is strong and healthy, with dark brown wood ; the 

 shoots are rather drooping ; leaves very large, doubly ser- 

 rated ; petioles about two inches long on the young wood, 

 with large reniform glands near the top ; flowers large, 

 opening about the second or third week in April ; fruit about 

 the size of the Bigarreau, and a good deal like it, but much 

 earlier, and with a longer stalk ; heart-shaped, and rather 

 pointed ; colour, on the shaded side, pale, waxy yellow, mot- 

 tled and dashed with rich red next the sun ; flesh firm, but not 

 so much so as that of the Bigarreau, very sweet and rich ; 

 stone middle-sized, ovate. 



TOBACCO LEAVED. Pr. cat. Pb. hobt. 



Quatre a lalivre. Lond. Hort. cat. 

 Guigne de quatre d la livre. \ t\ u 

 Guigne dfeuilles de Tahac. \ 

 Bigarreautier a grandes feuilles. Jard. fruit. 

 Cerasus decumana. De Launay. Bon. Jard. 

 Cerisier dfeuilles de Tahac. 

 Four to the pound. 



This fruit is rather below a medium size, of a yellowish 

 colour on the shaded side, and mottled with red on all other 

 parts of it, somewhat in the manner of the Carnation cherry, 

 but more closely resembling the China Bigarreau ; the part next 

 the peduncle is much more deeply coloured than that towards 

 the extremity. It is partially flattened on two sides, on one 

 of which is a rather deep and very distinct suture, and on the 

 other a more slight one ; the form inclines to oval, with a small 

 point or mamelon at the extremity ; the leaves, which are gene- 

 rally pendent, are exceedingly large and vigorous, and on 

 the young shoots of the first year's growth from the inocula- 

 tion, they often measure a foot in length, and five to eight 

 inches in breadth ; but this character is not so remarkable on 

 trees of more advanced age, as the leaves then produced are 

 of much smaller dimensions. The young shoots often present 

 a flexile or undulated appearance, which they probably acquire 

 from the rapidity of their growth, which advances in a degree 



