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dried state. They are much used in cookery, confectionary, 

 perfumery, and medicine. 



The Almond is propagated by seed for varieties, or for 

 stocks ; and by budding on its own, or on Plum stocks, for 

 continuing varieties. The Almond tree bears chiefly on the 

 young wood of the previous year, and in part upon small 

 spurs or minor branches; it is therefore pruned like the 

 Apricot and Peach, and its culture in other respects is the 

 same. 



CHERRY. 

 CERISIER. Primus cerasus. 



THE Cherry, of the cultivated varieties, is said to have 

 oeen first introduced into Italy in the year 73, from a town in 

 Pontus, in Asia, called Cerasus, whence its specific name ; 

 and it was introduced into Britain one hundred and twenty 

 years afterward. 



The Romans had eight species in Pliny's time, red, black, 

 tender-fleshed, hard-fleshed, small bitter-flavoured, and heart- 

 shaped. There are now upward of two hundred in cultiva- 

 tion. The French divide their Cherries into griottes, or 

 tender-fleshed ; bigarreau, or heart-shaped ; and guignes, or 

 small fruit. The fruit of many varieties is somewhat heart- 

 shaped, whence they are called ox-heart, white-heart, black- 

 heart, &c.; why some sorts are called dukes, is not so ob- 

 vious. The morello cherry is very different from the other 

 varieties, bearing almost exclusively from the preceding 

 year's wood, and the pulp of the fruit having the consistence 

 and flavour of the fungi called morel, whence the name. 

 The Chinese Cherry is valuable on account of its bearing an 

 excellent fruit, and ripening it in forcing-houses. 



Cherries are grafted or budded on seedlings from Cherry 

 stones, and from seedlings of the red and black mazzard. 

 For dwarfing they are worked on the morello, or perfumed 



