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28. Guigne Grosse Blanche. 



Syn. Guigne Grosse Blanche. Hort. Cat. No. 121. Bon Jard. 

 1832, 385. Baum. Taschenb. 450. 

 Grosse Weisse Suss Kirsche. Baum. Taschenb. 450. 



Fruit above middle size, heart-shaped. Stalk long and slender. Skin reddish, with 

 the yellow shewing through it, so as to mottle it. Flesh yellowish white, firm, juicy, and 

 sweet. Stone rather large, oval, not much flattened. 



The tree has great resemblance to the White Heart. The 

 glands on the petioles are however more prominent than in the 

 latter. The flowers are not so large, and open rather earlier. 



Ripens about the middle of July, and is a tolerable bearer. 



In giving an account of this sort, which was received in the 

 garden from M. De Candolle, of Geneva, and Messrs Baumann, 

 of Bollwiller, no reference has been made to the sort described by 

 Duhamel, p. 161, under the name of Guignier a Gros Fruit 

 Blanc, because he relates its time of ripening to be by the tenth of 

 June, which, after making allowance for the difference of climate, 

 is a month earlier than in this. 



29. Tilger's White Heart. 



Syn. Tilger's Weisse Herz Kirsche. Hort. Cat. No. 202. 



Tree vigorous. Shoots brown, speckled with a greyish epidermis. Leaves oblong, not 

 so coarsely serrated as many of this class. Petioles of medium thickness, about an inch 

 and a half in length, furnished with two, and sometimes three, reniform large glands. 

 Flowers middle-sized. Petals oval, flat. Stamens slender. Fruit middle-sized, heart-shaped. 

 Stalk about two inches in length, rather thick. Skin reddish, mottled with amber. Flesh 

 firm, white, with a flavour resembling that of the Bigarreau. Stone middle-sized, ovate. 



Ripens about the same time as the Bigarreau, to which it is in- 

 ferior on account of its smaller size. It was received from Dr. 

 Adrian Diel, of Nassau Dietz. 



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