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Belle d" Orleans. The earliest of all. Tree hardy and vigorous, 

 growing to a large size. Fruit medium size, pale, flesh tender and 

 sweet, but not of high flavor. Always bears well. 



Kentish. A very valuable fruit for kitchen use. The tree does not 

 attain a large size, and is of rather slender, drooping habit, but perfectly 

 hardy. It will produce a larger crop from the same ground than any 

 other cherry with which I am acquainted. It is the most profitable for 

 market of all cherries, and is well known as succeeding at the West 

 where all others fail. The stone adheres to the stem with remarkable 

 tenacity, so that it may be drawn out of the fruit, rendering this variety 

 particularly valuable for cooking or drying. ^ 



Red Jacket. One of Dr. Kirtland's seedlings, and one of the har- 

 diest and healthiest trees, of large stature, entirely free from cracking 

 of the bark, gum, or other disease. Fruit light colored, a little lightei 

 than the Downer, and not quite so large, of good, though not high 

 quality, but especially valuable on account of its healthiness. 



Monstreuse de Mezel^ or Bigarreau Gaiibalais. A black cherry 

 of the largest size, very handsome, inclining to bigarreau flesh, though 

 not so firm as Napoleon ; of first quality for a bigarreau, and tolerably 

 pi'oductive. Tree large and healthy, but not of as handsome form as 

 some others. 



Black Hawk. Another of Dr. Kirtland's, veiy handsome, large, 

 black, flesh somewhat firm, quality "veiy good," tree very hardy and 

 tolerably productive. 



Triumph of Cumberland. Originated in Cumberland County, Pa. 

 Fruit large, dark crimson, flesh rather firm, handsome, hardly to be 

 classed as " veiy good." Tree hardy and tolerably productive. 



Reine Horte^ise. Tree healthy, with slender wood inclined to weep ; 

 not very productive. Fruit of the largest size, light red, flesh tender 

 and juicy, quality " very good." 



Late Duke. An old variety, which has never been cultivated as much 

 as it deserves, both for its excellent quality, for dessert as well as kitchen 

 use, and its ripening late, after other sorts are gone. It also possesses 

 the same valuable characteristic as the Kentish of permitting the stone 

 to be drawn from the flesh. The stone is remarkably small. Fruit 

 light-red, and produced very abundantly. 



Governor Wood is exceedingly productive, handsome, and of excel- 

 lent quality, but its behavior here has been quiet unlike what we hear 

 of from the West, as it has rotted with me. 



We might extend this list to great length, but it already includes most 

 of those which we deem most desirable for cultivation here, and in 



