178 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The flesh is white. The juice is too sour for the fruit to be eaten other than in a 

 compote or frosted with sugar. 



This cherry ripens in mid-June or shortly thereafter. 



IX. Sweet CHERRY TREE that continues to bloom and bear fruit during the summer. 

 All-Saints, S. Martin, late CHERRY TREE. (PL VII.) 



The habit, size, & numerous pendent branches of this cherry tree more closely 

 resemble the preceding one than any of the others. But it has some very unique features. 



It has only vegetative & fruit buds. The vegetative buds give rise to shoots that are 

 weak, slender, of average length and that have alternate leaves two to three inches long 

 and twelve to sixteen lignes wide that terminate in a sharp point. They're a quite deep 

 green inside, light green on the outside, dentate & bidentate, sturdy & held securely on 

 stalks twelve to fifteen lignes long. 



In spring the fruiting buds give rise to small branches instead of flowers. The first 

 three or four leaves on the branch have fruiting buds in their axillae that are destined to 

 produce small branches similar to these in the following spring. After these first three or 

 four leaves appear, the branch continues to lengthen. As each new leaf develops, one & 

 sometimes two flowers emerge from its axilla. Their pedicels lengthen a great deal up 

 until the time that thev bloom. 



The flower is eleven lignes in diameter. It opens up a bit more than that of the 

 wild cherry tree, but much less so than those of other cherry trees with round fruit. The 

 petal is five lignes long and a little wider. It's flat, not puckered at all, or only very little, 

 on the edges, and it's not hollowed spoonlike. The stamens are white. Their tips are 

 yellow & very tiny. The five sepals 



