174 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



V. Common CHERRY TREE full of sterile flowers. 

 Double-flowered CHERRY TREE 



This cherry tree bears flowers with more petals than the previous one, from 

 twenty-five to thirty. An enormous pistil emerging from the middle of the calyx or 

 degenerating into small green leaves makes the flowers much less beautiful than those of 

 the wild cherry tree. It can be raised as a bush tree that is not practical for the wild cherry 

 tree. Since it doesn't produce any fruit, it belongs in an ornamental garden. 



VI. Common CHERRY TREE with round fruit, fragile pit. 



or? Garden CHERRY TREE with fruit without ossicles. H. L. B. 



CHERRY with soft pit. Soft pit CHERRY. 



ALTHOUGH several books on agriculture mention stoneless cherries, & even 

 confidently offer methods for obtaining them, I doubt that they exist & that methods for 

 producing them are successful. The present cherry tree is a variety of the common cherry 

 tree that has fruit about eight lignes in diameter & the same height. The fruit stalk is very 

 slender, thirteen or fourteen lignes long. The pit is woody but extremely thin & is easily 

 broken. This cherry is quite good for a common cherry. 



As to cherry trees with fruit called leaf cherries, I think that the small leaf that 

 ordinarily remains attached to the stalk of the fruit when it's picked is not sufficiently 

 characteristic to constitute a variety. Rather, it happens by chance more frequently among 

 these cherries & less often among other kinds where it also can occur. The cherries that 

 go by this name are inferior and at most are suitable only for making wine or ratafias. 

 Nevertheless, there's an extremely good leaf cherry 



