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that consistently retains this feature. I've never found one with a stalk that did not have at 

 its origin one or several small well-formed & denticulated leaves, often accompanied by 

 stipules. 



This fruit is big & beautiful. It's ten lignes high, its large diameter is eleven 

 lignes & the small diameter is nine-&-a-half lignes. Thus it's flatter on one side and 

 divided from one end to the other by a slightly indented line. It's very much reduced in 

 size near the tip. This together with the flattening gives it a shape like a large gean cherry 

 that's been shortened. The well-nourished stalk, fifteen to twenty lignes long, is tinged 

 with red at the end that inserts into the fruit in the center of a quite deep but narrow- 

 cavity. 



The skin is a very deep red-brown. 



The flesh is red. The juice is sour. When extremely ripe it loses quite a bit of its 

 tartness; it won't disappoint those who like their cherries to have a bit of a lively flavor. 

 But at the least it's very good in compotes. 



The pit is large & very lightly colored. 



It ripens shortly after mid- July. If its habit & its leaves didn't so closely resemble 

 the Portugal morello cherry tree, I'd guess that this cherry tree is a variety of the cherry - 

 gean or of the morello cherry. 



VII. CHERRY TREE fruitful with sweet, medium-sized round fruit, a rich red. 

 Very fertile CHERRY TREE. CHERRY TREE with clusters. 



This cherry tree is intermediate in size between the premature cherry tree & the 

 early cherry tree. Since it persists almost as a dwarf, it's better to graft it onto the Sainte- 

 Lucie cherry tree or onto the common cherry tree, than onto the wild cherry tree. 



Its shoots are long, moderately thick, and very numerous 



