156 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



WILD CHERRY TREES. 



I. Larger wild CHERRY TREE with smallest heart-shaped fruit, mildly sweet or tasteless. 

 WILD CHERRY TREE with small fruit. 



This tree grows to be the largest of its kind. It supports its branches well that 

 stretch out without becoming cluttered. 



Its shoots are strong & vigorous. The bark is light, smooth, & bright. 



The buds are long & pointed and are quite far apart from one another. 



The flowers are pendent and slightly open. When spread out they're fourteen or 

 fifteen lignes in diameter. The petal is very white, about seven lignes long, four-&-a-half 

 lignes wide, slightly puckered at the edges, & split or sort of cut into a heart shape at the 

 tip. Two or three flowers emerge from the same bud. The pedicel is slender and fifteen 

 lignes long. 



The leaves are large, four to five inches long, two or two-&-a-half inches wide, 

 shiny green above, whitish green underneath, folded along the central vein, dentate & 

 bidentate on the margins, and pendent on petioles about two-&-a-half inches long that are 

 slender & too frail to support them. 



The fruit is very small, about five lignes high with a diameter of four lignes and 

 almost the same width at both ends, making it more oval than heart-shaped. It's divided 

 along its height by a very indistinct groove. 



The skin is white, red, or black, depending on the variety of wild cherry tree or on 

 the degree of ripeness of its fruit; the black fruit variety takes on these three colors 

 successively. The red fruit varieties turn a very deep brown or black 



