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good and sweet, and would have (as 1 have written in my 

 note-book,) remained good till the end of the month. 



Cerise Indulle^ or Early May^ is a small, subacid cherry, 

 agreeable and valuable for its extreme earliness, as it ripens, 

 in some seasons, towards the end of May ; it succeeds admi- 

 rably on the Mahaleb stock, and is very valuable for forcing 

 in pots, forming a small, compact bush. 



Louis Philijipe. — A cherry much like the Kentish, but 

 sweet and very refreshing. A great bearer, and forms a pretty, 

 fertile bush. 



Reine Hortense^ Monstreuse de Bavay, Belle de Bavay, 16 

 a la Livre, Belle de Petit Brie — for, like most valuable vari- 

 eties of fruits, it has numerous synonymes — is a first-rate vari- 

 ety ; very large, and apparently a hybrid between the May 

 Duke and Kentish ; flesh soft, very juicy, sweet, and refresh- 

 ing ; ripening about a fortnight after the May Duke, and may 

 be kept on the tree under a muslin cover till late in August. 



Tardive de Mons, or Merveille de Septembre, is one of the 

 latest cherries known ; fruit, rather small, flesh very firm, 

 rather dry, and very sweet. I gathered the fruit from my 

 specimen tree the 20th of this present month (October;) they 

 were perfectly sound." 



To these we add the following account of a cherry which 

 is said to be a new variety, but which, from the description, 

 appears to us to be the Elton. 



Great Bigarreaii de Mezel. — A new cherry has recently been 

 brought to notice in France, and a full account of it is given 

 in the Revue Horticole. If it is really a new variety, of which 

 there is some doubt, it v^rill prove a valuable acquisition. As 

 the variety has already been introduced into our collections, 

 we copy the following description: — 



"This beautiful cherry was discovered at Mezel, a village of 

 Limagne, near Clermont Ferrand. A full history and de- 

 scription of it were given to the Horticultural Society of Au- 

 vergne, by M. Lecoq, the new President of the Society. Ac- 

 cording to his report, the first information in regard to this 

 cherry was communicated by M, Ligier de la Prude, who 

 stated to the Society that he found the tree growing upon his 

 estate at Mezel. Wishing to be better assured respecting the 

 qualities and origin of the fruit, the Society appointed a del- 



