184 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



at most five lignes wide and three-&-a-half lignes thick. The kernel is full & not very 

 bitter. 



This beautiful cherry that ripens at the end of June is one of the very best to eat 

 fresh. It's preferred over all others for making preserves. Not only is it large, very fleshy 

 & very sweet, but also it's light in color which makes the preserves appealing to the eye. 

 It's still hard to find around Paris, but it deserves to be very widespread there. 



XIII. Sweet CHERRY TREE yielding few large, most sweet, beautiful red round fruit. 

 or? Spanish CHERRY. Lob. & Ger. Emac. 



Holland CHERRY TREE. Coulard [see Translator's note, p. 0248]. (PL X.) 



THIS TREE is one of the largest in its group, although it's not nearly as tall as 

 cherry trees with heart-shaped fruit. It supports its branches well; there aren't enough of 

 them for it to get bushy or cluttered. 



The shoots are quite large & vigorous, of average length, red-brown on the sun 

 side, yellowish green on the shaded side, covered as though marbled with light gray. 



The buds are thick & long. Their stems are not very high. 



The leaves are large, nearly four inches long by two inches wide, oval shaped, 

 sharp at the ends, dentate & bidentate. They're puckered a lot around the center of the 

 midrib. The stalks are thick, ten to fifteen lignes long and a deep red on the side toward 

 the sun. 



The flowers are large; they open less than those of other round fruit cherry trees. 

 They're fifteen lignes in diameter. The petals are seven lignes long and six lignes wide. In 

 most cases the pistil extends beyond the stamens by about half of its length. 



