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& nurserymen, is distinguished from the preceding one only by the color of its fruit, its 

 flesh that's a bit firmer, & the juice that's a bit more flavorful. But I've found many fruits 

 of the preceding variety with all of these qualities after they've remained longer on the 

 tree, with better exposure, struck more by the sun than the others, & are completely ripe. 

 Besides, I've never seen a bigarreau cherry tree with early small fruit that produces all, or 

 mostly all, red fruit. I think that the existence of this variety at least can be considered 

 doubtful. 



V. Larger garden CHERRY TREE with medium-sized heart-shaped fruit and Jirm, tasty flesh. 

 Common BIGARREAU CHERRY TREE. 



This bigarreau cherry tree is intermediate between the early & late ones in terms 

 of the size of its fruit, the firmness of its flesh, its flavor & the time that it ripens. Some 

 gardeners claim that there are several varieties of this one as well. But they distinguish 

 them only by color, & a little bit, more or less, by their size & quality - differences that 

 could be due to soil, exposure, and to how ripe they are. 



A bigarreau cherry tree, whose habit & all of its parts are no different from the 

 common bigarreau cherry tree, is beginning to be cultivated in some gardens under the 

 name Belle de Rocmonl. 



Its fruit is ten lignes high, eleven lignes across its large diameter, & about ten 

 lignes on its small diameter. It's not as flat & is less elongated than the large red bigarreau 

 cherry. The flattened side has no discernible groove; it's divided only by a very indistinct 

 whitish line. The stalk, eighteen to twenty-four lignes long, inserts into a quite deep 

 funnel-shaped cavity with a round perimeter. 



Its skin is very smooth & shiny, a pure and beautiful red 



