162 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



IV. Larger garden CHERRY TREE with heart-shaped fruit, red, late-ripening, with tender & 

 juicy flesh. 



GEAN CHERRY TREE with late red fruit. Iron or St. Gilles GEAN CHERRY. 



I won't enlarge upon this gean cherry tree that is very close in height to the wild 

 cherry tree. The flowers begin to open only around the end of April, & the fruit ripens 

 only in September & October, months that are already plentiful with excellent fruit. By 

 comparison, this one only can seem inferior. 



Maine, Normandy, & some other provinces have several kinds of geans of 

 different colors, sizes, & qualities that I won't mention at all & that I believe there's little 

 use in publicizing. This type of cherry tree is worth cultivating only for extra production 

 during the early fruit season. However, I make an exception for the gean cherry tree 

 below that is incontrovertibly the most highly regarded of its kind & whose fruit can 

 match several fine round cherries that ripen at the same time. 



V. Larger garden CHERRY TREE, black, glossy, heart-shaped fruit, with tender, juicy & 

 most tasty flesh 



GEAN CHERRY TREE with large black glossy fruit. 



The habit of this tree is the same as that of the other gean cherry trees. 



The shoots are medium-sized, not very round, & sort of grooved at the end. The 

 color is yellowish without, or almost without, any spots. 



The bud is long, not very pointed, and quite close to the branch. The fruiting bud 

 is moderately blunt and quite swollen in the middle into an oval shape. 



The flower is formed the same way as those on other gean cherry trees. It opens 

 only a little & usually is smaller. The petals are 



