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Their stalk is thick, stiff, and six to twelve lignes long. The margins are not very deeply 

 denticulated & bidenticulated; the denticulation is blunt. The veins are very prominent & 

 the corresponding furrows are very indented. 



The fruit is big, very flattened at the tip & at the stalk. Its large diameter is eleven 

 lignes, the small diameter is ten-&-a-half lignes, & its height is nine lignes. Often it's not 

 very rounded around its diameter, or it's marred by creases & indentations. The stalk is 

 four to ten lignes long, very stout, strong, & set into a wide-open recess. The eye is in a 

 small indentation that's more conspicuous than on any other cherry. 



The skin is a beautiful red, vivid & bright, but not very dark. 



The flesh, slightly yellowish-white, is delicate. 



The juice is plentiful, very pleasant, and not very tart. 



The pit is white, four lignes long, four lignes wide, and three lignes thick. 



This beautiful cherry, big, very fleshy, as excellent in preserves as it is when 

 fresh, ripens around mid- July. But because it's so unfruitful, the cultivation of this cherry 

 tree has been disregarded and it's now found only among curiosity-seekers & in gardens 

 that are not used exclusively for production. In England it's very common in the county 

 of Kent where it's called the Kent Cherry. 



XI. Sweet CHERR Y TREE with large round red fruit, pleasantly tart. 



Montmorency CHERRY TREE. [Translator's note: Montmorency, a town just north 

 of Paris, is famous for its cherries, lace, and a neighboring forest. In the 18th & 19th 

 centuries it was a popular retreat for artists, writers, and politicians. Jean-Jacques 

 Rousseau resided there for several years] 



This cherry tree closely resembles the early cherry tree n°. 2 in size, fruitfulness, 

 arrangement of its branches, leaves, &c. Its flower is a little larger than that of the early 

 cherry tree & the large Gohet. Its fruit is smaller than the large Gobet & less compressed 

 between the tip and the stalk. Its large diameter 



