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blunt, & bidenticulated near the tip of the leaf. The stalks are strong, eighteen to twenty 

 lignes long. The leaves on the shoots are substantial, four-&-a-half to five inches long 

 and twenty-four to twenty-eight lignes wide. They're wider near the stalk than they are at 

 the other end that terminates almost uniformly in a very elongated point. The stalks are 

 thick & strong, fifteen to twenty lignes long, and tinged violet red. 



Its fruit is very big & very beautiful, flattened at the ends & a little on one side. 

 Generally its large diameter is eleven lignes, its small diameter is ten lignes, & its height 

 is eight-&-a-half to nine lignes. Some of them are an inch across their large diameter, 

 eleven lignes on the small diameter, & nine-&-a-half lignes high. The stalk, nine to 

 fifteen lignes long, is thick, especially where it inserts into the fruit and is secured in a 

 wide & quite deep cavity. 



The skin is crisp, a beautiful red-brown bordering on black. It's not as dark as the 

 morello cherry n°.15. 



The flesh is firm. It's a dark red that becomes much lighter near the pit. 



The juice is a beautiful red color, plentiful, excellent, not acidic, accented with a 

 pleasant slight bitterness. It's more or less noticeable depending on the terrain that causes 

 a lot of variation in the flavor of this fruit, but it's always very good. 



The pit, that very closely resembles that of the morello cherry, is almost white or 

 very lightly tinted. It's four-&-a-half lignes high, four lignes wide, & three-&-a-half 

 lignes thick. 



This morello cherry ripens at the beginning of July. It's considered to be the 

 biggest & the best of all the cherries. Some call it Royal, Archduke, Royal Holland, 

 Portugal Cherry, &c. 



