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quite well sustained, and set into a deep but narrow recess. The skin is a beautiful light 

 red. The flesh is white; the juice is plentiful but a bit tart even when the fruit is 

 completely ripe. The pit is five lignes long and has the same diameter. It's flat & 

 terminates in a small, very keen & sharp point. It ripens toward the end of June, after the 

 early fruit. It's the most beautiful of the cherries in the spring season. I believe that it's a 

 variety of n°. 12, but it's much inferior to it in quality. 



I won't undertake a description of the other varieties. Sometimes more than 

 twenty of them can be recognized within a single vineyard or in an average sized cherry 

 orchard. And in a neighboring vineyard or orchard few would be found that are exactly 

 the same. So detailing them all would take longer than is practical & would require 

 frequent additions. But I ought not omit some with very distinctive features. 



IV. Common double-flowered CHERRY TREE. Lob. Icon. 

 Multiflowered fruiting CHERRY TREE. Ger. Emac. 



Semi-double-flowered CHERRY TREE. (PL V.) 



The flower of this variety clearly distinguishes it from all of the others. It's 

 composed of fifteen to twenty petals, one or two pistils at its center, & the same number 

 of ovaries for fruit. When the flowers with double pistils set their fruit, something that 

 generally happens only on old trees, the fruit is twinned. The pistils of some flowers 

 develop into small green leaves & these flowers are sterile. In the end, it's only the 

 flowers with a single pistil, & only a few of those, that produce fruit. The fruit is 

 medium-sized, a vivid light red, not very fleshy, and extremely acidic. So this cherry tree 

 is worth cultivating only for its flowers. 



