C ERAS US, CHERRY TREE. 193 



The skin is a dark red-brown, verging on black, but less so than the common 

 morello cherry. 



The flesh is deep red. 



The juice is plentiful, a bit too sour-tasting, and in cold & damp regions it gets to 

 be downright harsh. So even if this beautiful fruit has somewhat of an advantage over our 

 morello cherry in size, it's much inferior to it in flavor. 



The pit is close to six lignes long, four-&-a-half lignes wide, and three-&-a-half 

 lignes thick. It's slightly colored and terminates in a small point. 



This fruit ripens in mid-July. 



XX. Sweet CHERR Y TREE, very fruitful, with large rounded most sweet fruit, from red to 

 somewhat blackish. 



ROYAL. Chery-Duke. (PL XV.) 



This tree is barely medium-sized. It sets its fruit extremely well & yields a very 

 abundant crop. 



The shoots have a slightly reddish tint on the side facing the sun. The other side is 

 a very light green. On a trained tree they're neither strong nor long because the branch 

 growth is weak. 



The buds are small, long, and pointed, & the stems aren't very high. 



The flowers open fully; they're fourteen lignes in diameter. The petals are oval, 

 hollowed spoonlike, frequently cleft at the tip into a heart shape, and attached by quite 

 long ungues. Two to five flowers emerge from the same bud. 



The leaves are a very deep green on the inside, a bit lighter on the outside. They're 

 held securely on thick stalks about an inch long with a red tint that infrequently extends 

 onto the midrib. The margins are quite finely denticulated 



