CERASUS, CHERRY TREE. 185 



This can greatly hinder the productivity of this cherry tree that blooms abundantly but 

 yields very little fruit. The flowers form sorts of bouquets like those of the large Gobet. 

 Three or four emerge from the same bud, & the buds are clustered in groups of four or 

 five. 



The fruit is big and almost exactly round. It's ten lignes high; its large diameter is 

 ten-&-a-half lignes & its small diameter is ten lignes. Frequently one side is divided 

 lengthwise by a well defined crease (some large Gohets also have such a crease.) It hangs 

 on a stalk fifteen to twenty lignes long. 



The skin is a very beautiful red, a true cherry color. 



The flesh is delicate, slightly reddish white. 



The juice is sweet, very pleasant, and slightly colored. 



The pit also has a light touch of red. It's five lignes long, four lignes wide, and 

 three lignes thick. 



It ripens about mid- June at the earliest. 



If this cherry tree were to produce fruit as plentiful as it is exceptional, it would be 

 preferred over almost all of the others. But as its flowers are very prone to abort, it's 

 cultivated so little that it's becoming a rarity. 



There's a cherry tree cultivated under the same name that seems to me to be no 

 different from the common cherry tree, except that its fruit is larger & extremely good. 

 This tree is full of fruit, rarely fails to produce, & is worth propagating. 



XIV. Sweet CHERRY TREE with large round fruit, partly reddish, partly amber in color. 

 CHERRY TREE with amber fruit, with white fruit. (PL XI.) 



Of all the cherry trees with round fruit, this one is the largest. Its many long 

 branches are well supported without becoming cluttered. 



