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Montmorency to its fruit catalog list in 1897 using the qualifying term 

 Ordinaire which was dropped in 1909. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, with the lower branches inclined to droop, 

 round-topped, productive; trunk and branches smooth; branches reddish-brown tinged 

 with light ash-gray, with a few lenticels of medium size; branchlets slender, reddish-brown 

 partly overspread with ash-gray, smooth, with a few small, inconspicuous lenticels. 



Leaves three inches long, one and one-half inches wide, folded upwards or flattened, 

 oval to obovate, leathery; upper surface dark green, smooth; lower stuface pale green, 

 with a few scattering hairs; apex and base variable in shape; margin doubly crenate, 

 glandular; petiole one inch long, tinged with dull red, glandless or with from one to three 

 small, globose, brownish or yellowish glands, usually at the base of the blade. 



Buds obtuse, plump, free, arranged singly or in clusters on short spurs; leaf -scars 

 obscure; season of bloom intermediate; flowers white, one and one-fourth inches across; 

 borne in scattered clusters in twos and threes; pedicels one inch long, glabrous, greenish; 

 calyx-tube green, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes tinged with red, broad, serrate, glabrous 

 within and without, reflexed; petals roundish to obovate, crenate, with short, blunt claws 

 and shallow, crenate apex; filaments one-fourth inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to or 

 slightly longer than the stamens. 



Fruit matures in mid-season; three-fourths of an inch in diameter, roundish-oblate, 

 slightly compressed; cavity abrupt; suture very shallow; apex roundish; color light to 

 rather dark red; dots numerous, small, russet, inconspicuous; stem thick, usually with 

 a faint tinge of red, one inch long, adhering well to the fruit; skin thin, tender, separating 

 from the pulp; flesh pale yellow, with a reddish tinge, with abundant light pink juice, 

 tender and melting, sprightly, tart; of very good quality; stone free, small, roundish- 

 ovate, flattened, pointed, with smooth surfaces which are tinged with red. 



NAPOLEON 



Prunus avium 



I. Prince Treat. Hort. 30. 1828. 2. Kenrick Am. Orch. 273, 274. 1832. 3. Downing Fr. Trees 

 Am. 183. 1845. 4. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 365. 1849. 5. Ann. Pom. Beige 1:27, 28, fig. 2. 1853. 

 6. Elliott Fr. Book 215. 1859. 7. Thompson Card. Ass't 527. 1859. 8. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 74. 1862. 

 9. Mortillet Le Cerisier 2:132. 1866. 10. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 470. 1869. 11. Pom. France 7: 

 No. 9, PI. 9. 1871. 12. Leroy Diet. Pom. 5:219, 220 fig., 221. 1877. 13. Flor. & Pom. 57, PI. 465. 

 1878. 14. Mas Pom. Gen. 11:109, no, fig. 55. 1882. 15. Cornell Sta. Bui. 98:493. fig- 87. 1895. 

 16. Ont. Fr. Gr. Assoc. Rpt. 5:38 fig. 1898. 



Gros Bigarreau Blanc. 17. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 1:165. 1768. 18. Truchsess-Heim Kirschen- 

 sort. 308-310. 1819. 19. Mortillet Z,e Cerisier 2:123-126, fig. 29. 1866. 20. Leroy Diet. Pom. 5:179, 

 180 fig., 181. 1877. 21. Mathieu Nam. Pom. 354. 1889. 



Lauermannskirsche. 22. Christ Handb. 664. 1797. 23. Christ Worlerb. 280. 1802. 24. Truchsess- 

 Heim Kirschensort. 292-295, 323-328. 1819. 25. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 367. 1889. 



T^nge Marmorkirsche. 26. Christ Handb. 655. 1797. 27. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 330-333. 

 1819. 



Holldndische Grosse Prinzessinkirsehe. 28. Christ Worterb. 281. 1802. 29. Truchsess-Heim Kirsch- 

 ensort. 295-299. 1819. 30. III. Handb. 125 Qg., 126. i860. 31. Mas Pow. Gere. 11:117, 118, fig. 59. 

 1882. 32. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 357. 1889. 



