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low, even hollow. Flesh yellowish, tender, sweet and excellent. 

 Ripens here middle July. 



Tecumseh. 



Fruit medium to large, obtuse heart-shaped. Skin reddish 

 purple. Flesh dark red, half tender, with a brisk, vinous flavour, 

 liipe towards the end of July. Tree moderately vigorous. 

 (Elliott.) 



Tradescant's Black Heart. Thomp. 



Elkhom, ) p . 



Elkhorn of Maryland. ) ^^*^^^- 

 Large Black Bigarreau. Man. 

 Tradescant's, 



Bigarreau Grros Noir, 

 Guigne Noir Tardive, 

 Gross Schwarze Kiioorpel, 

 Kirsche Mit Saftigeu Fleisch. ^ 



ac. to 

 Thomp. 



It is an European variety, but a tree growing about forty 

 years since in the garden of an inn in Maryland, attracted the 

 notice of the late AVm. Prince, who propagated it under the 

 name of Elkhorn, by which it was there known. The bark 

 is of a peculiarly gray colour, and the growth quite vigorous. 



Fruit large, heart-shaped, with a very irregular or uneven sur- 

 face. Skin deep black, glossy, (before fully ripe, deep purple, 

 mottled with black). Stalk rather short, set in a pretty deep 

 hollow. Flesh very solid and firm, dark purple, moderately 

 juicy. Ripe first and second week in July. 



Transparent Guigne. Forsyth. Prince. Pom. Man. 



Transparent Gean. Forsyth. 

 Transparent. 



It is a valuable and pretty variety for the dessert, hanging late 

 on the tree, and is admired by all amateurs. 



Fruit small, regular, oval heart-shaped. Skin glossy, thin, and 

 nearly transparent, t-howing the network texture of the flesh 

 beneath, yellowish-white, delicately blotched with fine red ; dis- 

 tinct suture line on both sides. Stalk long and slender. Flesh 

 tender and melting, and when fully ripe very sweet, mingled 

 with a very slight portion of the piquant bitter of the Mazzard 

 class of cherries. First of July, 



Triumph of Cumberland. 



Monstrous May. Brenneman's Early. 



Street's May. Cumberland's Seedling. 



Introduced to notice by David Miller Junior, of Carlisle, 



