. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. will rank at thehead of all cherries for sizeand beauty, and probablywill equal any of the largevarieties in flavor. Ouroutline is an exact copyof the plate accompanyingthe description. The colorof the fruit (beau rouge Ver-million) is as striking as itssize. As the first few trees ofthis superb new fruit wereonly offered for sale inFrance last autumn, we pre-sume it will not find its wayto this country till the au-tumn of the present the mean time, the mostardent of our pomologicalfriends must be satisfiedwith the descript
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. will rank at thehead of all cherries for sizeand beauty, and probablywill equal any of the largevarieties in flavor. Ouroutline is an exact copyof the plate accompanyingthe description. The colorof the fruit (beau rouge Ver-million) is as striking as itssize. As the first few trees ofthis superb new fruit wereonly offered for sale inFrance last autumn, we pre-sume it will not find its wayto this country till the au-tumn of the present the mean time, the mostardent of our pomologicalfriends must be satisfiedwith the description whichfollows.—Ed. Great Bigarreau ofMezel. Bigarreaux Mon-streaux de Mezel—Thismagnificent variety has beendiscovered at Mezel, a vil-lage of Limague, a shortdistance from Clermont-Ferrand.* The history and descrip-tion of this new fruit weregiven, on the 5th of July,to the Horticultural Societyof Jluvergne, in the reportof M. H. Lecoq, vice-presi-dent of the society. Weextract here the part rela-ting to this tree. * Puy deFrance.—Ed. Dome, central. Fig. 107. Great Bigarreau Cherry 476 FOREIGN NOTICES. • Our honorable oollcnciie, M. Ligier pe , liiui lri>(]iuntlv siiokcn to us of a new cliorrywhich lie had on his estate at Me/. vear, wishin^^ to he assured respecting the qua-litiesand ori-xin ol this iVuit, M. Limner requested theSociety to dciejiate a committee lor its examination,and Messrs. Carlier, Bravy, and Martial deChampelour were apjiointed to proceed to the spotto prove the merits of this novelty. A messayre fromM. Ligier announced its maturity on the 18th ofJune, and the ei)minittec liastened to reply to hisappeal. A lady of the Horticultural Society wasdesirous to join us, in order to taste and appreciatethe new fruit, of which she gives a faithful portrait,finely and richly colored. At ten oclock in themorning, some of us were beneath the cherry-tree,and others fairly among its branches. It stands ina vineyard a sliort dist
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