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CHERRIES. 



nlng of June, about the time of the Mayduke, or soon after ; 

 the tree is strong and heakhy, with dark brown wood ; the 

 shoots are rather drooping ; leaves very large, doubly ser- 

 rated ; petioles about two inches long on the young wood, 

 with large reniform glands near the top ; flowers large^ 

 opening about the second or third week in April ; fruit about 

 the size of the Bigarreau, and a good deal like it, but much 

 earlier, and with a longer stalk ; heart-shaped, and rather 

 pointed ; colour, on the shaded side, pale, waxy yellow, mot- 

 tled and dashed with rich red next the sun ; flesh firm, but not 

 so much so as that of the Bigarreau, very sweet and rich ; 

 stone middle-sized, ovate. 



TOBACCO LEAVED. Pr. cat. Pe. hort, 



Quatre a lalivre. Lond. Hort. cat. 

 Guigne de quatre a la livre. } X)\i\i 

 Guigne dfeuilles de Tabac. ^ 

 Bigarreautier a grandes feuilles, Jard. fruit. 

 Cerasus decumana. De Launay. Bon. Jard. 

 Cerisier dfeuilles de Tabac. 

 Four to the pound. 



This fruit is rather below a medium size, of a yellowish 

 colour on the shaded side, and mottled with red on all other 

 parts of it, somewhat in the manner of the Carnation cherry^ 

 but more closely resembling the China Bigarreau ; the part next 

 the peduncle is much more deeply coloured than that towards 

 the extremity. It is partially flattened on two sides, on one 

 of which is a rather deep and very distinct suture, and on the 

 other a more slight one ; the form inclines to oval, with a small 

 point or mamelon at the extren^ity ; the leaves, which are gene- 

 rally pendent, are exceedingly large and vigorous, and on 

 the young shoots of the first year's growth from the inocula- 

 tion, they often measure a foot in length, and five to eight 

 inches in breadth ; but this character is not so remarkable on 

 trees of more advanced age, as the leaves then produced are 

 of much smaller dimensions. The young shoots often present 

 a flexile or undulated appearance, which they probably acquire 

 from the rapidity of their growth, which advances in a degree 



