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Race 4. Red Hearts or Bigarreaus. Flesh pale; juice 

 uncolored. Examples, Governor Wood and Elton. 



CLASS II. GRIOTTES. 



Branches spreading at upright, or more or less long, 

 slender, and drooping; leaves flat, dark green, glabrous 

 beneath and borne stiffly on the leaf-stalks, large and 

 broad in Class I and narrow in Class II; flowers in 

 pedunculate umbels, cup-shaped, with firm and crumpled 

 orbicular petals;, fruit round or oblate and sometimes in 

 the Morello heart-shaped ; juice subacid or acid. 



Race 1. Black Dukes. Branches upright, occasionally 

 spreading; leaves large and broad; flesh dark; juice 

 colored. Examples, Empress Eugenia and May Duke. 



Race 2. Red Dukes. Mesh pale; juice uncolored. 

 Examples, Belle de Choise, Carnation, and Late Duke. 



Race 3. Black Morellos. Branches long, slender, and 

 drooping; leaves small and narrow; flesh dark; juice 

 colored. Examples, Double Natte, Cerise de Ostheim, 

 and English Morello. 



Race 4~ Red Morello or Kentish. Flesh pale; juice un- 

 colored. Examples, Early Richmond, Early Eed, Late 

 Kentish, and Montmorency. 



With this system in our vest-pockets, the writer and 

 Mr. Charles Gibb in 1882 were able to classify all cherries 

 in their season of fruitage in going eastward from France 

 through Germany, Austria, Poland, and Russia to the 

 Volga. The names of the sour and sometimes the duke 

 varieties were often misleading, but the Bunt Amarelle was 

 plainly a Red Duke, as was also the Lutovka and the Black 

 Amarelles, and the Weichsels with colored juice were 

 plainly Morellos and those with uncolored juice and red 

 color were as plainly Red Morellos or Kentish. It is true 

 that such east European varieties as Brusseler Braune and 



