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Belle Magnifique. Tree hardy, moderately 

 vigorous, productive ; a beautiful and excellent 

 late variety — culinary — good for table when 

 ripe. Flesh juicy. Ripens from middle of July 

 to middle of August. — Downing. 



In this latitude it often remains on the tree 

 until September, as I have plucked ripe cherries 

 several times in that month. 



I have other kinds which have not borne fruit, 

 but judging from the hardiness and thriftiness 

 of the trees, I live in a condition of ardent hope- 

 fulness regarding future results of present care 

 and management. 



My trees are in a garden soil, not over rich, 

 but in condition to produce a good crop of corn. 



Belle Magnifique. 



— on high, dry soil, shallow, with a very hard, rocky subsoil. 



Profits of Cherry Culture for Market. 



Although there is much satisfaction in watching the growth of 

 young trees, in pruning and giving shapely direction to the 

 branches, in beholding the first snowy blossoms, and in tasting 

 the first specimens of ripe fruit, there arc probably few of us who 

 do not many times, while patiently waiting on the annual repro- 

 duction of leaves and watching the upward tendency and expan- 

 sion of our favorite trees, mentally estimate the amount of returns 

 we are likely to receive, in cash, for all these years of work, watch- 

 ing and expectation. This, in fact, is a serious consideration in 

 the case of him, who, stimulated by his enthusiastic temperament 

 and passion for fruit culture, has stinted himself to a point of almost 

 meanness, and out of his enforced self-denial has found himself in 

 possession of a few choice kinds of trees, with only a meagre 

 knowledge of their proper treatment, and experiencing continually 

 the alternate hopes and doubts which are generally characteristic 

 of sanguine natures. 



I have, within a few years past, become acquainted with some 

 instances of remarkable productiveness of the Black Heart cherry. 

 One was that of a tree belonging to Mr. Stephen Lord of Hallo- 

 well, which was mentioned in an editorial note in the Maine Farmer 

 for July 26, 1873. This tree, of mature growth, was reported to 

 have produced in one year, and for many years in succession, six 



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