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Chevreuse Mdle; Troskerskirsche ; Flanders Cluster). — Fruit, produced 

 in clusters at the extremity of one common stalk, round, flattened at 

 the stalk. Skin, thin, of a pale red at first, but changing the longer 

 it hangs to dark red. Flesh, white, tender, and juicy, at first very 

 acid, but becoming milder as it hangs on the tree. Stone, small, 

 round, and a little compressed. It ripens in the end of July. 



This is cultivated more aa an object of curiosity than for any real value it pos- 

 sesses. If of use at all the only purpose it is fit for is baking or preserving. It ig 

 in all respects very similar to the Kentish, except in the singular position of the 

 fruit on the stalk. This is caused by the flowers containing several distinct styles ; 

 more or less of these are fertilised and produce a corresponding number of fruit. 

 In some cases the fruit is single, but varies to six in a cluster. This is a very old 

 variety, being known to Parkinson in 1629, by whom it was called the Flanders 

 ■Cluster Cherry. 



Some confusion has arisen between this variety and the Cerisier i trochet of 

 Duhamel, by Noisette adopting the nomenclature of the latter in his description of 

 this, and hence the synonyms of the Cerisier a trochet have been applied to the 

 Cluster Cherry. The Cerisier a trochet of Duhamel is a distinct variety, and is 

 known also by the name of TrJs Fertile. It is the Straussweichsel of Truehsess. 



COE'S LATE CARNATION.— Medium sized, roundish. Skin, 

 reddish yellow, clouded and mottled with bright red. Stalk, two 

 inches long. Flesh, tender, juicy, with a brisk sub-acid flavour, be- 

 coming mellowed the longer it hangs. 



Ripe from the middle to the end of August, and continues to hang 

 till September. 



CcBur de Pigeon. See Belle de Bocmont, 

 Common Red. See Kentish, 



CORONE {Black Coroon ; Black Orleans ; Belcher's Black ; Hert- 

 fordshire Black; Large Wild Black; Englische Schwarze Kronherz- 

 kirsche; Couronne; Kerroon; Crown). — Fruit, rather below the medium 

 size, roundish heart-shaped, marked on one side with a suture. Skin, 

 deep shining black. Stalk, slender, two inches long, inserted in a deep, 

 round, and narrow cavity. Flesh, dark purple, very firm, sweet, and 

 well flavoured. 



Ripe in the end of July and beginning of August. 

 A very good sinall cherry for orchard planting, being produced in great quan- 

 tities, and on account of the firmness of its flesh capable of being transmitted to a 

 distance without injury, but as a desirable variety for general purposes, it cannot 

 bear comparison with many others in cultivation. About the end of July it is 

 found in enormous quantities in akuost all the market towns of this country under 

 the various names of Corone, Mazzard, and Merries, although these two latter 

 names arc also applicable to other varieties. In Ellis' " Agriculture Improved," 

 for July, 1745, there is a long account of the Corone Cherry, part of which is as 

 follows : — " At Gaddesden we were in a great measure strangers to this cherry 

 thirty years ago ; for I believe I may be positive of it that I was the first who 

 introduced this cherry into our parish about the year 1725, not but that it was 

 growing in a few other places in Hertfordshire before then, as at Northchurch, a . 

 village situate in the extremest western part of that county, where this fruit grew 

 on standard trees in orchards, and brought great profit to their planters and 

 owners, because in that time the Kerroon cherry was scarce and rare." It is 

 much grown in Buckingham and Hertfordshire. 



