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Bigarreau gros Noir. 

 Guigne Noire Tardive. 



Grosse Schwarze Knorpel Kirsche mit Saftigen Fleisch. 



This differs from the Black Heart in its leaves not being so 

 deeply serrated ; and the petioles much shorter, being only about an 

 inch in length on the young wood. Flowers smaller, with obovate 

 petals, scarcely imbricated. Fruit about the same size. Skin 

 blackish, with minute stripes of dark red interspersed. Flesh firmer 

 than that of the Black Heart, with a similar flavour. The tree is 

 scarcely so good a bearer, and the fruit ripens about a week later. 



It is stated in Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica to have been 

 raised by John Tradescant, Gardener to Charles I. Elsewhere 

 it has been found to be designated by various other names. Mr. 

 Prince, proprietor of the Linnaean Botanic Garden at Flushing, 

 near New York, mentions his having discovered it in a tour through 

 Maryland about thirty-four years ago in the garden attached to an 

 hotel, where it was called the Elkhorn Cherry. 



5. Black Tartarian. 

 Syn. Black Tartarian. Pom. Mag. t. 44. Lindl. Guide, 149. 

 Hort. Cat. No. 198. 

 Fraser's Black Tartarian. Forsyth, Treat, ed. 7. p. 80. 

 Tartarian. 

 Fraser's Black. 

 Fraser's Tartarian. 

 Fraser's Black Heart. 

 Ronalds's Black Heart. 

 Ronalds's Heart. 

 Circassian. 

 Superb Circassian. 

 Black Russian. 



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