158 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



III. Larger wild CHERRY TREE with heart-shaped fruit, black, mildly sweet. 



Larger CHERRY TREE, also wild, with mildly sweet fruit, tinged with black. C.B.P. 



WILD CHERRY TREE with large black fruit. 



This variety doesn't attain the size of the wild cherry trees with small fruit. Its 

 shoots aren't as strong & are more of a brown color. The leaves are a deeper green. The 

 veins usually are tinged or spotted with a red color that often is noticeable in the 

 corresponding grooves on the other side. Three or four of its flowers emerge from the 

 same bud. They open more, but they're not quite as large (thirteen lignes in diameter). 

 The petal, more rounded and less of a pure white, is six lignes long and seven lignes 

 wide. Part of the calyx & its segments are bright red. The pedicels are quite big. 



The size of its fruit greatly exceeds that of other wild cherry trees & approximates 

 that of the small geans. It's elongated & is suspended from large stalks. 



The skin is delicate and black when the fruit is thoroughly ripe. 



The flesh is deep red, soft and mushy. 



The juice is the same color as the flesh, plentiful, sweet & sugary, but a bit 

 tasteless. 



The pit is large & tinged red. 



This wild cherry tree is cultivated for its fruit that liquor-makers use to color 

 ratafias & to mitigate the sharpness of brandy & of other fruit. 



GEAN CHERRY TREES. 



I. Larger garden CHERRY TREE, heart-shaped blackish fruit with tender^ juicy flesh. 



GEAN CHERRY TREE with black fruit. (PI. I. Fig. /.) 

 THE GEAN CHERRY TREE, a little less tall than 



