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and exposed to the sun. On the shaded side it's sort of dappled or marbled with light red 

 & yellow. It's mostly amber yellow, with the remainder a very light red on fruit that's 

 been covered or shaded by leaves. Before the fruit ripens, it's almost completely amber in 

 color. 



The flesh is slightly transparent, white, laced with even whiter fibers and very 

 lightly tinted with red under the skin on the side toward the sun. The skin is a bit firm and 

 makes this cherry seem crisp. 



The juice is plentiful, sugary, sweet without being bland and is excellent when the 

 fruit has completely ripened on the tree. 



The pit is white and terminates in a very tiny sharp point. It's four-&-a-half lignes 

 long, a little less wide & three-&-a-quarter lignes thick. 



This exceptional cherry ripens around mid-July. Like most good cherries, its 

 shortcoming is that it sets fruit with difficulty & it's not very plentiful. 



The cherry called Amber has a most appropriate name. Its skin is almost entirely 

 amber yellow & takes on only very little red. It's barely medium sized, slightly elongated, 

 & more enlarged near the stalk than at the tip. It doesn't compare in quality to the one just 

 described, & the cherry tree that produces it is cultivated more for the singularity of its 

 fruit than for its utility. 



XV. Sweet CHERRY TREE with large, round, most sweet black fruit. 

 MORELLO CHERRY TREE. (PL XII.) 



This cherry tree isn't quite as large as the preceding one. It has fewer branches; 

 they're bigger and it supports them well. It yields less fruit. 



The shoots are short, stout, and a red-brown that is not very dark 



