160 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The juice is tinged the same color. It's sweet & a bit tasteless. 



This gean frequently is picked while the skin is just deep red & the flesh is then 

 firm & red. The juice likewise is red & quite pleasant, even though a bit sour. 



The pit is large and clings to the flesh. It's white or very lightly tinted, six lignes 

 long, four-&-a-half lignes wide, and three lignes thick. 



This gean ripens at the beginning of June. It would be valued more if the early 

 round cherry didn't appear at the same time. 



II. Larger garden CHERRY TREE with smaller heart-shaped fruit, blackish, with juicy & 

 mildly sweet flesh. 



GEAN CHERRY TREE with small black fruit. (PL I. Fig 2.) 



This tree is a variety of the preceding one, noticeably different only in that its fruit 

 isn't as big & is less elongated. The fruit is seven lignes high; the large diameter is eight 

 lignes, & the small diameter seven lignes. As a result, when viewed across its large 

 diameter, it's wider than it is high. The groove is indistinct, & it appears as though the 

 fruit were divided in two lengthwise by a small swelling or ridge that extends from the tip 

 to the stalk. The stalk is slender, fifteen to twenty lignes long and is set into a recess that 

 is wide and deep relative to the size of the fruit. The skin takes on the same colors as the 

 preceding one, depending on the degree of ripeness. The flesh & juice turn a less deep 

 red, & their flavor is a bit more tasteless when the fruit is extremely ripe. The pit is white 

 or very lightly flesh-colored, five-&-a-half lignes long, four lignes wide, and three lignes 

 thick. This gean ripens at the beginning of June. 



