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The length of this bigarreau cherry is eight-&-a-half lignes. Its large diameter is 

 slightly more & its small diameter is seven-&-a-half lignes. It's not divided along its 

 length by a grooved furrow, but just by a line that's only discernible by its color & that 

 runs along the middle of a small elevation like a ridge extending from the top to the 

 bottom. The other side of the fruit is divided lengthwise only by a small depression. The 

 stalk is slender, twenty to twenty-four lignes long, and is set into a wide & very slightly 

 indented recess. 



The skin on the side exposed to the sun is a beautiful soft & light red. The other 

 side is a waxy white mixed with a very light pink tint. Up to this point, this description 

 has differed little from the one we gave for the large white gean cheny. Furthermore, the 

 outsides of these two fruits are so similar that when the fruit trees are interspersed they 

 hardly can be told apart, even though the gean's colors aren't as bright & its white is more 

 amber-colored. The following features identify the bigarreau: 



Its flesh is white. Although less firm than that of other bigarreau cherries, it's crisp 

 & much firmer than that of the gean cherry. 



The juice, a bit sour at first, sweetens & takes on an enhanced flavor when the 

 fruit is completely ripe. 



The pit is white, five lignes long, four lignes wide, and three lignes thick. 



It ripens around the middle of June. 



IV. Larger garden CHERRY TREE with smaller heart-shaped red fruit and firm, sweet flesh. 

 BIGARREAU CHERRY TREE with early small red fruit. 



This variety, adopted by many gardeners 



