CERASUS, CHERRY TREE. 195 



XXI. Sweet CHERRY TREE, very fruitful, with large, somewhat heart-shaped sweetest fruit, 

 from red to blackish. 



CHERRY- GEAN. (PL XVI. Fig. L) 



THIS CHERRY TREE grows just as large as the morello cherry tree n°. 1 5 & bears 

 much more fruit. I believe that it's a variety of the Chery-Duke. 



Its shoots are big & strong, of average length in proportion to their thickness, but 

 much longer than those of the Portugal morello cherry tree. The bark, an extremely light 

 pale reddish color, is covered with a pearl-gray epidermis. 



The buds are large, oval, elongated, quite pointed, and set at a distance from the 

 shoot. The fruiting buds are shorter & moderately blunt. The small fruiting branches have 

 a group often to fifteen of them at their tip like the Chery-Duke. Each bud yields three or 

 four, & more commonly, five flowers. 



The flowers, like the ones on the May-Duke, look very much like the small 

 flowers on the gean cherry tree. They don't open up very much. When spread out they're 

 at most twelve lignes in diameter. The petals are about five lignes long by the same 

 width. The calyx & its sections are green on the shaded side and light red on the opposite 

 side. 



The leaves have the same shape & proportions as those of the Chery-Duke. 

 They're considerably larger & yet a little narrower near the stalk. The ones on the shoots 

 are five to six inches long by three inches wide. Their denticulation is large, blunt, and 

 deep with double or triple bidenticulation. 



The fruit is big. The large diameter is ten-&-a-half lignes, the small diameter is 

 eight-&-a-half to nine lignes, & it's nine lignes high. It's flattened on the sides and is not 

 divided by any groove. The surface is a bit uneven along 



