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on the side facing the sun and green on the shaded side. 



The buds are big at their base and come to an almost conical point. Their stems 

 are flattened. 



The flowers open fully. Usually three emerge from the same bud. They're an inch 

 in diameter. The petal is a bit wider than it is long, very much hollowed spoonlike and 

 slightly puckered in the middle. The calyx is very red. 



The leaves are large, very deep green, and terminate in a long & sharp point. 

 They're folded along the central vein, slightly pendent on their stalks, deeply dentate & 

 bidentate, and oval shaped, pointed at both ends. The petioles are about fifteen lignes 

 long. The leaves are three to three-&-a-half inches long by twenty to twenty-two lignes 

 wide. 



The fruit is big, compressed a little near the stalk and sometimes even a little at 

 the tip. It's flattened lengthwise along one side. A very lightly traced furrow or a very thin 

 line often is evident at the center of this flattened part. Its large diameter is ten to eleven 

 lignes, the small diameter is nine-&-a-half to ten lignes. and its height is eight-&-a-half to 

 nine lignes. The stalk, thirteen to nineteen lignes long, well nourished, is inserted into a 

 quite wide but not very deep cavity. 



The skin is delicate, black, and glossy. 



Its flesh is firm and a very deep red-brown. When the fruit is extremely ripe it 

 sometimes seems to be even darker than the skin. 



The juice is a beautiful red, very sweet & very pleasant. 



The pit, very lightly tinged with red, is four-&-a-half lignes long, four lignes 

 wide, and three-&-a-quarter lignes thick. 



This cherry ripens at the beginning of July. It's one of the most highly regarded, 

 for good reason. 



