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inserted in a rather wide cavity. Flesh, very tender, juioy, and of 

 good flavour. Juice, coloured. 



A very early black gean ; a week earlier than Early Purple Gean, 

 and ripe in the middle and end of June. In an orchard-house it is 

 ripe in the end of May and beginning of June. 



HARRISON'S HEART {White Bigarreau; Harrison's Duke).— 

 Fruit, medium sized, heart-shaped, flattened near the stalk, on the 

 side which is marked with a shallow suture, which is not indented, but 

 represented by a small point or nipple, as in some of the peaches, where 

 the style-point is. Skin, at first of a pale yellowish colour, thickly 

 speckled and covered with red, but as it ripens it is completely over- 

 spread, and thickly mottled and spotted with blood red, except at the 

 apex, where the red is not so thick. Flesh, firm, but less so than the 

 Bigarreau ; yellowish white, rayed with white, juicy and well flavoured, 

 but not so rich as the Bigarreau. 



This has for some years been confounded with the Bigarreau. The true Har- 

 rison's Heart is now very seldom met with, and the opinion has gone abroad that 

 it is synonymous with the Bigarreau. The characters, however, are very distinct; 

 the Bigarreau is of a roundish heart-shape, while the other is of a true heart-shape ; 

 the apex of the Bigarreau is pitted, that of this is nippled j the colour of the 

 Bigarreau is pale, and only dark red next the sun ; this is almost entirely over- 

 spread with red, and spotted with blood red. The stalk of Harrison's Heart is 

 more slender than that of the Bigarreau ; the latter ripens in the second week in 

 July, the former in the second of August. 



Hative de Lyon. See Early Lyons. 



Hildesheimer Ganz Spate Knorpelkirsche. See Bigaireau de Hil- 

 desheim. 



Hildesheimer Spate Herzkirsche. See Bigarreau de Hildesheim. 

 Hollandischekirsche. See Carnation. 

 Herefordshire Black. See Corone. 

 Herefordshire Heart. See Gascoigne's Heart. 



HOGG'S BLACK GEAN.— Fruit, medium sized, obtuse heart- 

 shaped. Skin, black and shining. Stalk, an inch and a half long. 

 Flesh, dark, very tender, richly flavoured, and very sweet. 



Ripe in the beginning of July. 



HOGG'S RED GEAN. — Fruit, medium sized, roundish, inclining 

 to heart-shaped. Skin, red, freckled with amber yellow. Stalk, an 

 inch and a half long. Flesh, yellowish, very tender and juicy, sweet, 

 and richly flavoured. 



Ripe in the beginning of July. 



HoUandische Grosse. See Bigarreau de Hollande. 



HUNGARIAN GEAN. — ^Fruit, rather below the medium size, obtuse 

 heart-shaped. Skin, amber-coloured, mottled with red on the side 



