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barely five lignes long by four lignes wide. They're slightly concave & have a heart- 

 shaped cleft at the tip. The calyx & its sections are tinged deep red-brown on the side 

 facing the sun. The rest is green mingled with some reddish color. 



The leaf is large, light green on the inside and vivid green on the outside. The 

 margins are deeply dentate & bidentate. The leaf is supported a little less well than that of 

 other gean cherry trees. The eighteen to twenty-five lignes long stalk has slight reddish 

 tinge on the side facing the sun. The large leaves on the fruiting branches are nearly five 

 inches long & two-&-a-half inches wide. 



The fruit is slightly less big at the tip than it is near the stalk. It's nine lignes high, 

 the same across its large diameter, & eight-&-a-half lignes at its small diameter. Its stalk 

 is green, slender, eighteen lignes to two inches long and set into a small, not very deep 

 recess. 



The skin is black, smooth, and glossy. 



The flesh is red and firmer than that of other gean cherries. 



The juice is plentiful, pleasant & flavorful. 



The pit has a slightly red tinge. It's four-&-a-half lignes long, four lignes wide, 

 and three lignes thick. 



The fruit is ripe about the end of June. If it ripened earlier, this gean cherry tree 

 would deserve to be cultivated to the exclusion of all of the others. 



BIGARREAU CHERRY TREES. 



I. Larger garden CHERRY TREE, larger heart-shaped fruit, rich red, with firm c£ most tasty 

 flesh. 



BIGARREAU CHERRY TREE with large red fruit. (PL II.) 



Since the bigarreau cherry tree customarily is propagated by grafting, I have no 

 way of knowing its natural size. When grafted onto the wild cherry tree, 



