CERASUS, CHERRY TREE. 169 



on an espalier with a southern exposure, where it rarely grows higher than four feet. In 

 open ground it grows five or six feet high. It's grafted onto suckers of cherry trees with 

 round fruit or onto Sainte-Lucie cherry trees. 



The shoots are longish, very slender, light brown on the side facing the sun, gray 

 on the opposite side. 



The buds are small, elongated, and very pointed. 



The flower is eight lignes in diameter. The petal is long & narrow, very thin, 

 hollowed spoonlike, and puckered at the edges. Two or three flowers emerge from the 

 same bud. 



The leaves are small, a deep green on the inside, lighter on the outside. The 

 largest ones are three inches three lignes long by twenty lignes wide. From their widest 

 point, nearer to the tip than the stalk, they narrow quite uniformly toward the stalk where 

 they terminate in a point. They also diminish in size toward the other end that terminates 

 in a quite a long point. They're dentate & bidentate. The underside is accented with veins 

 that are not very prominent, & the inside surface is indented with furrows that are not 

 very deep. The stalk is five to six lignes long. 



The fruit is small, round, and flattened at the ends. It's six-&-a-half lignes high & 

 its diameter is eight lignes. It's often picked before it reaches this size. But if left to 

 completely ripen on the tree, it sometimes gets to be too big. The stalk is twelve to 

 thirteen lignes long and set into a wide & quite deep recess. The small white mark or 

 white spot left behind by the pistil at the tip of the fruit also is in a very small recess. It 

 gives rise to a small groove discernible only up to about half the length of the fruit. 



The skin is firm. It's a light red that becomes quite dark when the fruit is 

 completely ripe. 



