Coales & Tool send us all the way from Napa, California, six cherries by mail, that reached us as fresh as if just gathered from the tree, and were quite as good flavored as the Napoleon Biggareau from which it was raised. They say "its chief value lies in its firmness which enables it to travel long distances." These six cherries weighed I¼ oz., which shows that they had lost little by their long journey. They were picked on the ist of June and reached us on the 9th. It is larger, more oblate, and darker than Napoleon.