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Belle de Rocmont is so similar to Yellow Spanish that some writers consider them 

 the same. If not the same they are so nearly so that a description of this variety is 

 unnecessary. 



Belle de Saint Tronc. P. aoium. i. Thomas Guide Prat. 27. 1876. 2. Fhr. & Pom. 

 117. 1878. 3. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 334, 359. 1889. 



This Heart cherry was introduced in 1873 by M. Antonie, Marseilles, Bouches-du- 

 Rh6ne, France. It is described by the French as a brownish-black cherry but Rivers 

 lists it as a light red sort. Fruit cordate; stem short; brownish-black; flesh deep red, 

 juicy; first quality; early; productive. 



Belle Vezzouris. Species? i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 2^?,. 1857. 2. Thomas Am. Fruit 

 Cult. 664. 1897. 



A medium to large, light red, somewhat transparent cherry with a subacid flavor; 

 quality good; ripens with Downer. 

 Belle de Voisery. P. avium, i. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 334. 1889. 2. Guide Prat. 17. 



1895. 



Similar to Duchesse de PaUuau according to Guide Pratique. 

 Bender (of Michigan). P. cerasus. i. Wood Cat. 32. 1912. 



This is a seedling found by a man named Bender near Shelby, Michigan. It ripens 

 between Early Richmond and Montmorency, surpassing the latter in size, color and 

 quality; sour. 

 Bender (of New York). P. avium X P cerasus. 



Marguerite, i. McKay Cat. 7. 1912. 



This variety is an accidental seedling found by J. O. Bender, Fayetteville, New York, 

 about 1875. It is a late cherry of the Diike group. The fruit is attractive both in size 

 and color, making a valuable market sort. Fruit roundish-cordate to oblate, compressed; 

 cavity medium, flaring; suture very shallow; stem slender, above medium in length; skin 

 of medium thickness and toughness, separating from the pulp, light red, yellowish on the 

 shaded side; flesh pale yellow, somewhat coarse and stringy, tender, melting, subacid, 

 juicy; good in quality; stone large, slightly clinging along the ventral suture. Very similar 

 to Late Duke. 

 Berlin Amarelle. P. cerasus. i. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 549. 1901. 



A vigorous variety received from L. Spath, Berlin, Germany. Fruit medium to large, 

 oval; skin glossy red; flesh tender, juicy, pleasingly acid; season from the middle to the 

 last of July in Canada. 

 Bernard. P. cerasus. i. Am. Hart. An. 88. 1869. 



Described by D. B. Wier, Lacon, Illinois, as a seedling of the Morello group. Tree 

 vigorous, pyramidal in growth; fruit the size, shape, color and flavor of English Morello 

 but with a smaller pit. 



Bettenburger Glaskirsche. P avium X P cerasus. i. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 

 445, 446, 689. 1819. 2.111. Handb. 171 fig., 172. i860. 



Transparent de Bettenburg. 3. Mas Le Verger 8:77, 78, fig. 37. 1866-73. 



Belle Allemande. 4. Thomas Guide Prat. 2$. 1876. 



Truchsess, a German, grew this variety from a stone of the Prager Muscateller, in 



