220 THE PEUIT MANUAL. 



Ripe in the middle and end of August, and is valuable as a late 

 variety. 



Thompson's Duke. See May Duke. 



TOBACCO-LEAVED {Ounce Cherry; Four-to-the-Pound ; Quatre 

 d la Ldvre ; Bigarreautier Tardif d, Feuilles de Tabac ; Bigarreautier d 

 Grandes Feuilles ; Bigarreau Tardif ; Guignier a Feuilles de Tabac ; Vier 

 auf dn Pfund). — Fruit, rather below medium size, heart-shaped, 

 somewhat flattened on one side, which is marked with a fine line ex- 

 tending to the apex, and terminating in a curved point, such as is met 

 with in some varieties of peaches. Skin, tender, shining, pale amber- 

 coloured on the shaded side, but mottled and spotted with dark red on 

 the side next the sun. Stalk, slender, two inches long, placed in a 

 shallow cavity. Flesh, firm, pale amber-coloured, transparent, juicyj 

 and with a sweet and rich flavour. Stone, medium-sized, ovate. 



It ripens in the beginning of August. 



There is nothing for which this cherry is remarkable, except its large leaves and 

 high-sounding name ; however it came to be called " Fonr-to-the-Pound " would 

 puzzle any one to imagine, but such is the name by which it was at one time 

 known, and under which it was found in all nurserymen's catalogues. It is a very 

 old cherry, and is evidently of English origin, being mentioned by Parkinson as 

 early as 1629, under the more modest designation of " Ounce Cherrie." He says, 

 " The Ounce Cherrie hath the greatest and broadest leafe of any other Cherne, but 

 beareth the smallest store of Cherries everie yeare that any doth, and yet blossometh 

 well ; the fruit also is nothing answerable to the name, being not great, of a pale 

 yellowish red, neere the colour of amber, and therefore some have called it the 

 Amber Cherrie." There is no doubt it is this variety also which is described by 

 Meager under the name of " Ciliegeberrylin," which he says is " as big as an indif- 

 ferent apple." The Germans ascribe its introduction on the Continent to the Earl 

 of Murray, who had a seat at Menin in Flanders, whence it was taken into Ger- 

 many by M. Seebach, colonel of an Austrian regiment of cavalry, and who received 

 it from Lord Murray's gardener under the name of Quatre a la Livre. The leaves 

 are a foot and sometimes 18 inches long. 



TOMATO. — Fruit, very large, about an inch in diameter, roundish, 

 and somewhat oblate, with shallow furrows on its sides like a tomato. 

 Skin, clear red. Stalk, about an inch and a quarter long. Flesh, 

 pale, tender, juicy, and agreeably flavoured. 



A handsome cherry of the Red Duke class. 



TRADESCANT'S HEART {Elkhorn ; St. Margaret's ; Large Black 

 Bigarreau ; Bigarreau Gros Noir ; Guigne Noire Tardive). — Fruit, of 

 the largest size, obtuse heart-shaped, indented and uneven on its sur- 

 face, and considerably flattened next the stalk ; on one side marked 

 with the suture. Skin, at first dark red, but changing when fully ripe: 

 to dark blackish purple. Stalk, slender, an inch and a half to an inch 

 and three quarters long. Flesh, dark purple, adhering firmly to the 

 stone, firm, sweet, and briskly sub-acid. 



It ripens in the end of July and beginning of August. 



TRANSPARENT {Be Jonghc's Transparent).— Yra.ii,B\iO\ei medium 

 size and oblate, with a bold style mark on the apex, and with a very 



