THE CHERRY. 
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Belle Agathe. 
This new cherry figured and described not long since as a fine, 
large, late variety, Mr. Rivers says has proved a small, hard, 
late fruit. 
Bigarreau, Large Red. 
Gros Bigarreau Rouge. Poiteau. 
Bigarreau a Gros Fruit Rouge. Bon. Jard. 
Bigarreau a Gros Fruit Rouge. Thomp. ? 
Belle de Rocmont {of some). 
Fruit large, oblong heart-shape. Skin dark red in the sun. 
Flesh firm. Early in July. 
Bigarreau, China. Prince’s Pom. Man. 
Chinese Heart. Thomp. ? 
Fruit of medium size, roundish heart-shaped, light amber, 
mottled and shaded with bright red. Flesh firm, with a sweet, 
peculiar flavour. Ripe last of June. 
Bigarreau Black. 
Bigarreau Noir. 
Fruit middle sized, heart-shaped. Skin red, but becoming 
black. Flesh firm and rather dry. First of July. 
Buttner’s Yellow. Thomp. 
Biittner’s Wachs-Knorpel Kirsche. 
Buttner’s Gelbe-Knorpel Kirsche. 
Raised by Biittner, of Halle, in Germany, and one of the few 
cherries entirely yellow. Fruit of medium size, roundish. Skin 
pale yellow. Flesh firm, yellowish, sweet, and not of much 
value. Ripe first week in July. 
Corone. Thomp. Fors. 
Couronne. Lind. Herefordshire Black. 
Coroun. Lang. Black Orleans. 
Large Wild Black. 
Fruit below middle size, roundish heart-shaped. Skin dingy 
black when fully ripe. Flesh when ripe, tender, and of little 
value. Middle of July. 
Gascoigne’s Heart. Thomp. 
Bleeding Heart. Lind. 
Red Heart, {of some,) ) 
Herefordshire Heart, V 
Guigne Rouge Hative. ) 
ac. to 
Thomp. 
An old English variety. Fruit of medium size, long heart- 
