192 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



XIX. Sweet CHERRY TREE with large roundish fruit, tending from red to blackish, soar. 



German MORELLO CHERRY TREE. Lime MORELLO CHERRY. Large cherry of the 



Count of Sainte Maure [Translator's note: a district in the Loire valley]. (PL 

 XIV.) 



All the parts of this cherry tree are as small & delicate as those of the preceding 

 one are big & vigorous. 



The shoots are long, slender, brown or reddish on the side toward the sun, 

 yellowish green on the opposite side. The oldest wood is dark brown. 



The buds are oblong, blunt, and well nourished. The stems are wide. 



The flowers don't open up as much as those on other cherry trees, but more so 

 than the ones on wild cherry trees. They're fifteen lignes in diameter. The petals are wider 

 than they are long, very concave & often cleft into a heart shape. Three or four flowers 

 emerge from each bud. 



The leaves on the fruiting branches are small, short, and narrower near the stalk 

 than at the other end that terminates in a very small point. The denticulation is fine, 

 regular, blunt and not very deep. These leaves are two inches to two inches six lignes 

 long by sixteen to nineteen lignes wide. The stalks are slender, six to eleven lignes long. 

 The leaves on the shoots are three inches long, twenty lignes wide and terminate in a long 

 point. They're blunt or slightly rounded when they open and quite deeply denticulated & 

 bidenticulated near the tip. 



The fruit is big, eleven lignes at its large diameter, ten lignes across its small 

 diameter and ten-&-a-half lignes high. Most often the height and the large diameter are 

 the same. So since it's flattened lengthwise, compressed & larger at the stalk than at the 

 tip, the shape is rather more elongated than round. The stalk is slender, fifteen to twenty 

 lignes long, and set into a wide but not very indented recess. 



