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changing to black; flesh firm, sugary, juicy, high flavored; pit small, ovoid; early. 

 Recommended by the Soci^te Pomologique de France as a good, early cherry. 

 Bigarreau Blanc Precoce. P. avium, i. Mas Pom. Gen. 11:144. 1882. 



A short description of the tree-characters is given in this reference. 

 Bigarreau Blanc-Rose de Piemont. P. avium, i. Thomas Guide Prat. 22. 1876. 2. 

 Guide Prat. 17. 1895. 



Matiures late; according to Guide Pratique, 1895, it is very similar to Napoleon. 

 Bigarreau Bordan. P. avium, i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 5:183, 184 fig. 1877. 



Bordans fruhe weisse Herzkirsche. 2. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 3:27. 1858. 



Bordans Herzkirsche. 3. III. Handb. 97 fig., 98. i860. 4. Thomas Guide Prat. 18, 

 197. 1876. 



Guigne Blanche de Bordan. 5. Mortillet Le Cerisier 2:97, 98, 208. 1866. 



This variety was raised by M. Bordan of Guben, Prussia, Germany, and was first 

 described by Oberdieck. Leroy lists it as a Bigarreau as he believes the flesh is too 

 firm for a Guigne as many Germans have described it. Tree hardy, productive; fruit 

 usually borne in pairs, elongated-cordate, sides and base often compressed; suture 

 shallow; stem long, slender, set in a wide, deep cavity; skin glossy, yellowish, spotted 

 and streaked with red, becoming almost entirely washed with red in the sun; flesh 

 tender, whitish, juicy, sugary, slightly acidulated, pleasing; stone medium, oval, turgid; 

 season early. 

 Bigarreau de Bourget. P. avium, i. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 335. 1889. 



Listed without a description by Mathieu. 

 Bigarreau Brun. P. avium, i. Knoop FrwctoZogie 2:35. 177 1. 



Not described. 

 Bigarreau de Capucihs. P. avium, i. Gard. Chron. N. S. 19:255. 1883. 



Kapuziner Knorpel. 2. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 364. 1889. 



This variety is little known out of Belgium. Tree vigorous, productive; fruit large, 

 obtuse-oblong, regular, depressed at the ends; skin amber-yellow, blushed with red; flesh 

 white, crisp, juicy. 

 Bigarreau de la Caserne. P. avium. 1. Gard. Chron. 662,. 1866. 



According to the reference this variety is spoken of in La Belgique Horticole as a variety 

 with prodigious leaves, yellow fruit dashed with red and of good quality. 

 Bigarreau Cayenne. P. avium, i. Tharaas Guide Prat. 22. 1876. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 

 5:186 fig. 1877. 



Cayenner Knorpelkirsche. 3. Proskauer Obstsort. 55. 1907. 



This variety was received by Leroy in 1857 from Angouleme, Charente, France. 

 Fruit generally borne in pairs; of medium size, oval, somewhat cylindrical, compressed at 

 the extremities, with a large, rather deep suture; apex generally prominent; stem long; 

 cavity broad and regular; skin thick, yellow, washed with pale red changing to hvely red 

 in the sun; flesh yellowish, firm, brittle, juicy, sweet, slightly sugary and aromatic; pit 

 large, oval, slightly convex; ripens the last of June to the first of July. 

 Bigarreau de Chalons. P. avium, i. Mortillet Le Cerisier 2:131, 132, 209. 1866. 



A local variety, widely known in the departments of Jura and Sa6ne-et-Loire, 



