By Mr. Robert Thompson. 



33. Tobacco Leaved. 



Syn. Tobacco Leaved. Lindl. Guide, 154. 



Four to the Pound. Hort. Cat. No. 89. 

 Quatre a la Livre. Hort. Trans. 4, 51 1 . Noisette, Manuel, 

 504. 



Bigarreautier Tardif a Feuilles de Tabac. ib. 

 Bigarreautier a Feuilles de Tabac. Bon. Jard. 1832, 385. 

 Bigarreautier a Grandes Feuilles. Noisette, Jard. Fruit.2, 17. 

 Guignier a Feuilles de Tabac. Duhamel, ed. nov. 

 Bigarreau Tardif. Baum. Taschenb. 449. 

 Kirsche Vier ein Pfund. SicMer, 14, 352, t. 18. Christ, 



Pomol. 279. Truchs. Sijst. 267. 

 Cerasus Nicotianaefolia. 

 Cerasus Decumana. Delaunay. 



Shoots yellowish brown, with a greyish epidermis. Leaves very large, exceeding in 

 this respect all others of the Genus, being often more than twelve inches in length, 

 sometimes even eighteen inches, and from four to six in breadth, of thin texture, some- 

 what bullated, coarsely serrated, the veins beneath small, but prominent, slightly pubes- 

 cent. Petioles two or three inches in length, of moderate thickness, but not in propor- 

 tion to the size of the leaves, which are consequently pendent. Glands, one or two, reni- 

 form, middle-sized. Flowers large. Petals loosely set, obovate, imbricated. Fruit scarcely 

 middle-sized, heart-shaped, with sometimes a pointed curved apex. Stalk slender, about 

 two inches and a half in length. Skin pale amber-coloured on the shaded side, and 

 mottled with pale and dark red next the sun. Flesh firm, pale amber-coloured, juicy, 

 sweet, and high flavoured. Stone middle-sized, or somewhat large, roundish-oval. 



This sort is an extremely bad bearer, and its fruit possesses but 

 little merit. It does not on any account deserve a place in a fruit 

 collection, consequently it would not have been noticed in this 

 place had it not been the occasion of so much imposition, owing 

 to its bearing the extravagant name of Four to the Pound, and 

 others of like signification. 



How it came to have such a name as Four to the Pound is not 



