180 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



& stop after the end of July. The entire part of the branch that had borne fruit dries up & 

 dies during the winter. 



The leaves on the fruiting branches are very small & not very elongated. The 

 largest ones are eighteen lignes long by thirteen lignes wide. They're deeply denticulated 

 & bidenticulated. The stalk is five to seven lignes long. 



Good soil that's been well cultivated substantially increases the size of the leaves 

 & the dimensions of the fruit, so sometimes I doubt that there are several different 

 varieties of this cherry tree. It's more of a curiosity than it is useful. 



X. Sweet CHERR Y TREE with larger round fruit, bright & clear red with a .short pedicel. 

 Montmorency CHERRY TREE with big fruit. Large Gohet Gobet with short stalk. (PL VIII) 



THIS TREE grows to medium size, about the same size as the largest common 

 cherry trees. It sets fruit with difficulty & generally yields little of it. As a result it's 

 sometimes called le Coulart [Translator's note: the modern French word cou lard refers to 

 a vine that aborts or fails to set fruit]. 



The shoots are somewhat long, very slender, reddish-brown, a little lighter on the 

 shaded side than on the side toward the sun. They're quite lightly speckled with very tiny 

 spots. 



The buds are small, quite rounded, blunt, and covered with dark brown scales. 

 Their stems are flat. 



The flowers are eleven lignes in diameter. The petal is round; the edges aren't 

 very puckered. Three or four flowers emerge from the same bud, & since the fruiting 

 buds are extremely close to one another, this cherry tree looks as though it's putting out 

 its flowers & its fruit in bouquets. 



The leaves are small, elongated, narrower near the stalk than at the other end. The 

 largest ones, on shoots of a trained tree, are four inches long and two inches wide. Those 

 on fruiting branches are much smaller. 



