262 Report upon the Varieties of the Cherry, 



This sort is well known to be in extensive cultivation in this 

 country, and it affords the principal supply of pale Cherries for the 

 London market. Its size and beauty being very attractive, and the 

 trees good bearers, it will no doubt continue to be in much estima- 

 tion with fruit-growers. The only drawback to its superior merit 

 is the hardness of its flesh ; the quantity of the latter is however 

 great in consequence of the smallness of the stone. 



No reference has been made in making out the above synonyms 

 to any of the sorts described by the continental authors, except- 

 ing in the case of those, adopted from La Bretonnerie. None 

 of the sorts described by Duhamel seem to coincide exactly 

 with this ; nor has it been observed up to the present time among 

 any of the Parisian collections, excepting in one obtained from 

 Mr. Hervey, of the Luxembourg garden at Paris, under the name 

 of Bigarreau de Hollande. 



13. Bigarreau Gros Monstrueux. 

 Syn. Bigarreau Gros Monstrueux. Hort. Cat. No. 29. 

 The wood, leaves, and flowers, are so similar to those of the 

 Bigarreau, that no specific difference can be stated. The fruit is 

 also of near resemblance in many respects, but is longer in shape, 

 and of a darker colour, firm, white, sweet and rich. Stone middle- 

 sized, oval. 



Ripens about the same time as the Bigarreau. 



14. Bigarreau Rouge. 

 Syn. Bigarreau Rouge. Hort. Cat. No. 38. 

 The tree and its fruit bear great resemblance to the Bigarreau. 

 The petals are more obovate and narrower at the claw than those 

 of the latter. Probably it may be the Bigarreau Gros Rouge of 

 Duhamel, Traite des Arbres Fruitiers, p. 163. pi. 2, which certainly 



