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Dure Noir Grosse. Species? i. Mas Pom. Gen. ii:i6o. 1882. 



Not described. 

 Dwarf Siberian. P. fruticosa. 1. Prince Pom. Man. 2:153. 1832. 



Dutch Weeping. 2. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 48. 183 1. 



De Siberie. 3. Ibid. 5$. 1831. 4. Poiteau Pow. Franc. 2:No. 20, PI. 1846. 



Weeping. 5. Kenrick Am. Orch. 283. 1832. 



De Siberie h fruit rond ? 6. Noisette Man. Camp. Jard. 2:508. i860. 



Dwarf Siberian belongs to Prunus fruticosa, the dwarf cherry of the Old World, of 

 which Cerasus chamaecerasus is a synonym. This cherry was introduced into America 

 by Prince of Flushing, New York, and was thought by him to be the most suitable species 

 to ftimish stocks for dwarf trees. At best the variety reaches a height of from three to 

 four feet with branches very numerous, forming a dense shrub. The flowers have long 

 peduncles, often solitary but are usually united in umbels of from three to five each, 

 which are sessile and axillary; fruit globular, red, small; flesh red, very acid, tender. 

 Early Amarella. P- cerasus. i. Albertson & Hobbs Cat. 26. 1904. 2. Vincennes Nur. 

 Cat. 26. 1906. 



Tree upright, hardy, very productive; fruit large, brilliant red becoming darker as 

 it gets riper ; stem very long. 



Early Amber. P. avium, i. Hogg Fruit Man. 69. 80. 1866, 2. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 

 45. 1831. 



River's Early Amber Heart. 3. Kenrick Am. Orch. 234. 1841. 4. Downing Fr. 

 Trees Am. 177. 1845. 



Guigne panachee pricoce. 5. MortiUet Le Cerisier 2:97, 208. 1866. 



Bigarreau Ambre Pr6coce. 6. Mas Le Verger 8:49, So> fig- 23. 1866-73. 7- Leroy 

 Diet. Pom. 5:174, 175 fig. 1877. 



Thomas Rivers of Sawbridgeworth, England, is given credit for this variety as a 

 strain of the old Early White Heart. Leroy, however, states that his grandfather propa- 

 gated this cherry under the name Cerise Panache or Suisse, as early as 1790 but without 

 knowing its origin. He dropped the precoce because other varieties ripened long before 

 this one. Tree vigorous, erect, productive; fruit borne in threes, medium in size, obtuse- 

 cordate, slightly compressed; suture wide; stem long, slender, set in a straight, deep cavity; 

 skin firm, medium thick, changing from lively red to reddish-brown; flesh yellowish, tender, 

 cracking, with uncolored juice, sweet, aromatic; pit large for the fruit; season early. 

 Early Black Bigarreau. P- avium, i. Hogg Fruit Man. 69, 80. 1866. 2. MortiUet Le 

 Cerisier 2:302. 1866. 



Fruit large, distinctly heart-shaped; stem long; color jet black; flesh dark purple, 

 firm, rich, sweet; excellent; season the last of June and the first of July. 

 Early Eugene. Species? i. III. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 437. 1898. 



Reported by H. L. McGee, Villa Ridge, Illinois, as being a hardy and productive 

 variety. 



Early May. P. cerasus. i. Rural N. Y. 12:375. 1861. 2. Trans. III. Agr. Soc. 5:199. 

 1861-64. 3- Am. Jour. Hort. 1:123. 1867. 4. Ibid. 3:18-22. 1868. 5. Am. 

 Hort. An. 84. 1869. 6. Country Gent. 39:118. 1874. 



