the currant. " 487 



Weeping, or All-saints. 



Ever-Flowering Cherry. C. vulgaris, semperflorens. 



Cerise de la Toussaiute. Guignier a rameaux pendauu. 



Cerise Tardive. Cerisier Pleurant. 



Cerise de St. Martin. St. Martin's Amarelle. 



Martin's Weichsel. Monats Araarelle. 



AUerlieiligen Kirsche. 



This charming little tree, with slender, weeping branches, clothed 

 vpith small, almost myrtle-like foliage, is a very pleasing ornament when 

 introduced on a lawn. Its fruit is a small, deep red Moi-ello, which is 

 acid, and in moist seasons is produced for a considerable period succes- 

 sively. When grafted, as it generally is, about the height of one's 

 head, on a straight stem of the common Mazzard, it forms a beautiful 

 parasol-like top, the ends of the branches vveejiing half way down to the 

 ground. 



SELECTIONS OF CHOICE CHERRIES FOR FAMILY USE, 

 TO RIPEN IN SUCCESSION. 



Early Purple Guigne, Belle d'Orleans, Mayduke, Bigarreau, Rock- 

 port, Black Tartarian, Elton, Gov. Wood, Coe's Transparent, Osceola, 

 Delicate, Downer's Late, Reine Hortense, Belle Magnitique, Kentish. 



The hardiest Cherries are the Kentish (or Early Richmond), the 

 Dukes, and the Morellos. These succeed well at the farthest limits, 

 both Noi'th and South, in which the Cheriy can be raised ; and when 

 all other varieties fail, they may be depended on for regular crops. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



THE CURRANT. 



Ribes rubriim, Lin. Orossulacem, of botanists. 



OroseUlier commun, of the French; IHe Johannubcere, Gervadin. y Albesseboom, 



Dutch ; Ribes rosso, Italian ; and OroselUi., Spanish. 



The name Currant is said to be derived from the resemblance in the 

 fruit to the little Corinth grapes or raisins, which, under the name of 

 (Jurrants, are sold in a dried state in such quantities by grocers ; the latter 

 woid being only a corruption of Corinth, and the fruit of this little 

 grape being fanuliarly known as such long before the common currants 

 wei*e cultivated. 



The Currant is a native of Britain, and the north of Europe, and is, 

 therefore, an exceedingly hardy fruit-bearing shrub, seldom growing 



