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to their size) should be planted at intervals of one or two 

 hundred yards in orchards, when, he says, almost all the 

 caterpillars and butterflies will resort to them. The ap- 

 pearance of the Bird-Cherry will be hideous, but the fruit- 

 trees will be safe. 



Several other species of Cerasus are extensively cultivated 

 in England as ornamental trees and shrubs, but none of 

 them have any pretension to be admitted among British 



FRUIT OF THE BIRD-CHERRY. 



Trees. My notice of them, therefore, must be very brief : 

 Cerasus Laurocerasus, the Laurel-Clierry, or, as it is now 

 almost exclusively called, Laurel, was introduced into 

 Europe from Trebizond, in Asia Minor, in 1576 ; conse- 

 quently, it is a mistaken notion to identify it with the 

 famed Laurel of the ancients. This error is the more 

 frequent, from our having given to the true Laurel, Laurus 

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