CHERRIES. 



13? 



BELLE DE CHOISY. Pr. cat. N. Duh. Pom. mag. 

 Jard. fruit. Bon jard. Lond. hort. cat. 



Cerise doucette. Belle de Choisy. Griotte de Palembre, N. Duh. 

 Belle de Palembre. De la Palembre. 



The following description is taken firom the Pomological 

 Magazine. 



"This cherry is of French origin, and is said to have been 

 raised at Choisy, near Paris, about the year 1760. It has 

 sufficient merit to induce us to recommend it as deserving 

 cultivation in this country, being hardy and bearing well as a 

 standard. We know no other cherry of a similar character 

 which is equally sweet. The general habit of the tree has a 

 strong resemblance to that of the Mayduke, but the branches 

 are rather more spreading, and the leaves are more evenly 

 serrated ; the flowers large ; petals roundish, concave ; sta- 

 mens strong, shorter than the styles ; fruit middle-sized, 

 roundish, depressed at the apex; skin transparent, red mottled 

 with amber colour, especially on the shaded size ; flesh amber 

 coloured, tender, and sweet ; stone middle-sized, round." 



GRAFFION. Pr. CAT. For. 



Bigarreau. Hook. Pom. For. and of the English publications 



generally, and of some American collections. 

 Bigarreau. Grajion. Lond. Hort. cat. 

 Cerise ambree. Guindoux blanc. > J)\xh 

 Cerisier a fruit ambre, a fruit blanc. ^ 

 Amber, or Imperial. Coxe. 

 Yellow Spanish, of most American collections. 

 Harrison heart, of some English gardens, according to Forsyth. 



This tree is one of the largest of all the varieties that belong 

 to the same species ; its branches are strong and vigorous, 

 and form a handsome and well supported head. The growth of 

 the young trees is particularly thrifty ; their lateral shoots are 

 remarkable for taking an almost horizontal direction, and the 

 bark is marked with small dots. The fruit is the largest I 

 have ever seen, except the Prince's duke ; it is round at the 

 extremity and somewhat flattened at the base, borne upon pe- 

 duncles of from fifteen to twenty-four lines in length; the skin 



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