By Mr. Robert Thompson. 



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two inches in length, tolerably strong, purplish red. Flowers large, very early; petals 

 roundish obovate, imbricated. Stamens slender, irregular in length. Fruit middle size, 

 obtusely heart-shaped. Stalk nearly two inches in length, bright green. Skin pale 

 amber-coloured, mottled with red. Flesh white, soft, juicy, very sweet and rich. Stone 

 middle-sized oval. 



Ripens in the end of June, and being a great bearer, and one of 

 the very earliest pale coloured, or mottled Cherries, it is well de- 

 serving of cultivation. 



24. White Heart Cherry. 

 Syn. White Heart. Hort. Cat. No. 214. 

 Dredge's Early White Heart, ib. 



Trees with spreading branches, forming a round head. Shoots brownish, with a close 

 grayish epidermis thinly scattered over it. Leaves oblong, tapering to the point, sharply 

 serrated. Petioles purplish, about two inches in length, with flattened reniform glands. 

 Flowers large, pendulous, opening early. Petals obovate, not concave, loosely set, and 

 imbricating each other. Fruit middle-sized, heart-shaped. Stalk upwards of two inches 

 in length. Skin whitish where shaded, the rest pale red, mottled with darker when very 

 ripe. Flesh whitish, tolerably tender and sweet. Stone middle-sized, roundish oval, a 

 little flattened. 



A moderate bearer, ripening towards the end of July. 



The accounts given by various authors of the White Heart 

 Cherry are very contradictory ; and the merit of the sort, now that 

 much better ones are known, is not sufficient to deserve to occupy 

 space in reconciling the different statements, or appropriating them 

 to other sorts to which they may probably have reference. 



25. Chinese Heart. 

 Syn. Chinese Heart. Hort. Cat. No. 64. 

 Resembles the White Heart, but is not superior, therefore its 

 cultivation is not to be recommended, and consequently a particular 

 description is unnecessary. It ripens somewhat earlier than the 

 one with which it is now compared, so that its season is that of the 

 Elton, with the quality of which it will bear no competition. 



