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' - . ^uce fome fruit in a fmall compafs 5 but thcfe are ex- 

 '' ■■. periments unfit to be carried into general ufe, and 

 ^ '-^'r only proper to latisfy curiofity •, for is it not much 



. better to allow the trees a greater fhare of room 



V • i againft the walls, when one tree fo planted and pro- 



/ ^' • ^ perly managed, will produce more fruit than twenty 



■ V t of thefe trees, or twice that number, when they are 



."^planted too clofe, though they are grafted upon the 



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.JBlack Cherry or any other free ftock. 

 , ._The Early or May Cherry is the firlt ripe, lo one or 

 ' -i,. two trees of this fort may be allowed a place in a gar- 

 '*. den, where there is room for variety. The next ripe 

 : ii the May Duke, which is a larger fruit. than the 

 :^.other, and is more valuable. After this comes the 

 '7^^ Archduke, ^hich, if permitted to hang upon the 

 : ' tree till the fruit is quite ripe, is an excellent Cherry ; 

 ■,.Z but few perfons have patience toletthem hang their 

 .^J full time, fo rarely have thqm in perfedion, for thefe 

 '.\ ihould not be gathered before July; and if they 

 ,hang a fortnight longer they will be better. This 

 ;..is to be underftood of the fituation near London, 

 ..^ where they ripen a fortnight earlier than in places 

 * iCforty miles diftant, unlefs they have a very warm 

 /Sheltered fituation. When this fort is planted againft 

 f: north walls, the fruit may be continued till the middle 



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< of Auguft; but thefe muft be prote6led from the 



birds, otherwife they will deftroy them, ; -^ ., :^ 



The Hertfordlhire Cherry, which is a fort of Heart 



' Cherry, but a firmer and better flavoured fruit, will 



. *,not ripen earlier than the end of July, or the begin- 



' r ning of Auguft, which makes it the more valuable 



/ for its coming when the other forts of Cherries are 



; - - gone, . This is now pretty common in the nurferies ; 



t but as it is one of the beftkind of Cherries, it is well 



^ .j, worthy of being propagated in the nurferies. ■: , 



' . f The Morello Cherry, . which is /generally planted 



^againft walls to a north aipeft, and the fruit com- 



V n^only ufed for preferving ; yet where^ they, are plant- 

 ed to a better afped, and ^lliffered .to hang upon the 



V trees until they are thoroughly ripe^ is a very good 

 4 fruit for the table ; therefore fome of the trees of this 



, ^^ fort fhould have place where there is plenty of wall- 



^ ing, upon a fouth-weft wall, where they will ripen 



. perfeftly by the middle or end of Auguft, at which 



* f,:tinie they will be an acceptable fruit. ^ .:^ . ; 



'' /vji The Carnation Cherry is alfo valuable for coming 



H •. late in the feafon ; this has a very firm fleftiy fruit, but 



-■' f;isnot the beft bearer. ; This fort will fome feafons 



,j jl^cnvery well on efpaliers, and by this means the 



■ '.j^jfruit may be continued longer in the feafon. _ . , 



"^j^ThQ large Spanifli Cherry is nearly allied to the Duke 



' -: f-.^Ckw^ frofn,\vhich it Teems to be^pnly a variety ac- 



. ' - ;. cidentally obtained ; this ripens foon after the com- 



; i\ Jiiqn^Duke^Cherry^ andrvcry often paffes for it. ' * . 



^\, ^?,.ThejellowSpani(la Cherry is of. an oval fhape a.nd 



iv\of an amber colour: this ripens late, and is a fweet 



Cherry, but not of a rich flavour-, and being but a 



middling bearer, is not often admitted into curi- 



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' i'Ous gardens, unlefs where variety is chiefly con- 



fr The Corone, or Coroun Cherry, is fom*ewhat like the 

 • ^ s' JSlack Heart, but a little rounder *, this is a very'good 



- 1;- i)earer and an excellent fruit, fo |hould have a place 

 ' ^v.^^^^^^y good fruit-garden, , This ripens the middle 



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I .(.^hc Lukeward ripens foon after the Corone Cherry \ 



* . this is a good bearer, and a very good fruit; it is of 



;, a dark colour, not fo black as the Corone; this yill 



■ . ■■ do well in ftandards. , ,. . ■'^' 



■. f-;The Black Cherry is feldom grafted or budded, but 



, ' f'\Jl generally fown for ttocks to graft the other kjnds of 



*. .^M,crries upon ^ but where peribns are curious to have 



\' ^K%ft. fiwoured of this fort of fruit, theyfliould be 



-': t . Propagated by grafting from fuch trees as produce 



^ ^^, ■ ^-1%^ %i^- This fort of Cherry is frequently 



,. ^^ F^^.^ed u\ wildernefles, where it. will grow to' a large 



■- "^^; ^"d,^at the time of its flowering, will make a 



•, . variety, and the fruit will be food for the birds. 



.■;,vi..e double-flowering Cherry is alfo propagated "for 

 . . , im beauty of tKc 'floNvers, which are extremely flne, 



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the flowers being as double and large as a Cinnamon 

 Rofe ; and thefe being produced in large bunches on 

 every part of the tree, reqder it one of the moft beau- 

 tiful trees of the fpring. Some of the flowers which 

 are lefs double, will often produce fome fruit, which 

 the very double flowers will not -, but this defed: is 

 fufficiently rccompenfed in tlie beauty of its flowers. 

 This is propagated by budding or grafting on the 

 Black or Wild Cherry fliock, and the trees are vevy 

 proper to intermix with the fecond growth of flower- 

 ing trees. • 



CERASUS RACEMOSA. 



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See Padus. 



CERATpNIA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 983. Siliqua. 

 Tourn. Inft. R. H. gyS. tab. 344. The Carob, or St. 



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• •The Characters are. 



It is male and female in dift\ 



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five longfi. 



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nale fii 



fe7nale fowers have empalements of 



leaf^ divided ly fi 



^fl^fiy g^rnien Jituated wiihin the receptacle^ fufp 

 a flender flyle^ crowned hy afligma in form of a 



ift€rvi:ard becomes a long^ flefl: 

 'd ly tranfvcrfe 

 'difh^ ccmprefj^ 



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effed 



This genus of plants is ranged in the third feftion of 

 ' Linna:us's tv/enty-third clafs, intitled Polygamia Tri- 

 ' oecia." The plants of this clafs have male, female, 

 * and hermaphrodite flowers on dillinft plants. 



',' We have but one Species of this senus, viz. 



Ceratonia iStliqua,) H. L. The Carob-tree, or St. 

 John's Bread. Siliqua edulis of Gafpar Bauhin, and 

 the Caroba of Dale. . . _ . '^..\ ^ , . 



This tree is very common in Spain^ and in fome parts 

 of Italy, as alfo in the Levant, where it grows in the 

 hedges, and produces a great quantity of long, flat, 

 brown-coloured pods, which are thick, meally, and 



: of a fweetifli tafl:e. iT'^hefe pods are many tim^es eaten 

 by the poorer fort of inhabitants when they have a 

 fcarcity of other food, but they are apt to loofen the 

 belly ,^ and caufe gripings of the bowels. The pods 

 . are directed by the Cqllege of Phyficians to enter fome 

 medicinal preparations, for which purpofe they are 

 : often brought from abroad. 

 In England the tree is preferved by fuch as delig;ht 

 m exotic plants, as a cunouty ; the leaves always 

 continue green, and being diiferent in Ihape from 

 moft: other plants, afibrd an agreeable variety when 



intermixed with Oranges, Myrtles, &c. in the green- 

 houfe. , ■ _ . . 



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Thefe plants are propagated from feeds, which, when 

 brought oyer frefh in the pods, will grow very well, if 

 they are fown in the fpring upon a moderate hot-bed j 

 ancl when the plants are come up they ftiould be care- 

 fully tranfplanted each into a feparate fmall pot filled 

 ,with lisht rich earth, and plunged into another mo- 

 derate hot-bed, obfervmg to water and fliade them 

 vmtil they have taken root •, after which you mufl; lee 

 them have air, in proportion to the heat of the wea- 



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of the hot-bed, and placed in a warm fituation, where 

 they may remain until the beginning of Odober, 

 when they ftiould be removed into the grcen-houfe, 

 placing th'em where they may have free air in mild wea- 

 ther i for they are pretty hardy, and require only to 

 be ftieltered from hard froft:s. When the plants have 

 remained in the pots three or four years, and h^ve 

 gotten ftrength, fome of them may be turned out of 



the pots in the fpring, and planted into the full ground, 

 ' in a warm fituation, near a fovith wall, where they 

 ..^ willendurethccoldof our ordinary winters very well, 



but mufl: have fome Ihelter in very hard weather, 

 f^ I have riot as yet fcen any of thefe trees 'produce 

 ,,.. flowers, though from fome which have been planted 

 ./fome time againfl; walls, it is probable there may 



be flowers and fruit in a fev/ years; though it can- 

 ,, not be expeded that the fruit will ever ripen in this 



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