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these flatter sides. A slender stalk, eighteen to twenty-four lignes long, is set into a wide 

 & deep cavity. The fruit is much bigger at this end than at the other; it's such that the 

 large diameter is ten lignes near the stalk, but only about seven lignes thick to within a 

 ligne-&-a-ha\f from the tip. As a result, it's shaped very much like a large gean that's been 

 shortened. 



The skin is a deep red-brown. When the fruit is completely ripe, it's almost as 

 black as that of the morello cherry. 



The flesh is a little softer than that of the Chery-Duke. It's a deep red that lightens 

 a bit next to the pit. 



The juice is red, sweet, with a pleasant but not very refined flavor. 



The pit is oval, very lightly colored, five lignes long, three-&-a-half lignes wide, 

 and three lignes thick. 



This cherry ripens at the end of June. I believe it's the same one that several 

 gardeners call Royal, New Cherry of England, &c. 



There is a variety of this cherry tree (PL XVI. Fig, 2.) that differs only in that its 

 fruit is less flattened on the sides, it's a bit larger, & a lighter brown. The fruits don't ripen 

 all at once. Often five cherries on the pedicel of the same bud will be at five different 

 stages of ripeness. Consequently, the fruit can be picked from the tree for nearly a month, 

 from mid-June until mid-July. 



We won't discuss at all the Heaumiers, Cceurets, Guindoliers [Translator's note: 

 Heaumier is a common name for the Julian, or gean cherry tree (Cerasus Juliana); Cceuret 

 and Guindolier are other cherry trees varieties], & many of the cherry, gean, & bigarreau 

 trees that are merely varieties of those that we've already described. There are others that 

 are suited to certain provinces & to particular regions. Most of them are found only in 

 orchards where people want to collect the good, the average, & the bad ones. 



