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Gum Arabic ; and Hasselquist relates, " that more than one 

 hundred men, during a siege, were kept alive for nearly two 

 months, without any other sustenance than a little of this 

 gum taken sometimes into the mouth, and suffered gradually 

 to dissolve." The wood is hard and tough, and used by the 

 turner and cabinet maker. 



SELECT DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF CHERRIES. 



DUKE AND ROUND FRUIT. 



AMBREE DE CHOISY. Belle de Choisy of Downing. Cerise Doucette, Cerise 

 de la Patembre of the French gardens. A middle size roundish fruit, high- 

 ly deserving of cultivation. Skin transparent, red, mottled with amber; 

 flesh amber coloured, tender, and sweet. It bears well as a standard, and 

 ripens its fruit in June. 



AHCHDUHE, Royal Duke, Griofte de Portugal, Portugal Duke. A large 

 globular-formed red cherry ; like the May Duke, it grows in clusters, but 

 the tree grows more vigorously than that variety ; and yields an abundance 

 of fruit, which hangs a long time on the tree improving in flavour, in July. 



BEI.I.E ET MACNIFIQUE. A fine round cherry, much esteemed in Mas- 

 sachusetts. The tree is vigorous and productive ; the fruit truly magnifi- 

 cent ; its colour red, mottled with white spots, and abounding in acid ; valu- 

 able from its late maturity, in July. 



CARNATION, Cerise Nouvelle d'AngUterre, and Cerise de Portugal, of 

 Downing. Late Spanish, Griotte d'Espagne, and Griotte de Villenes, of 

 Prince. Fruit round, of a pale red colour ; flesh firm, *vith a very good 

 flavoured juice ; makes excellent preserves, and is good for the table in 

 July. 



DOWKER'S LATE RED, Downer's Favourite. A large round cherry, de- 

 serving a place in every garden, raised by S. Downer, Esq., of Dorchester, 

 Massachusetts; colour light red ; flesh firm and of a fine sprightly flavour ; 

 ripening after most other superior varieties are gone, on which account this 

 variety is highly prized in the markets. 



KENTISH, Early Kentish, Early Richmond, Virginian May, Long Stem 

 Montmorency, Montmorency a bmgue queue. Mr. Prince says that other 

 varieties are sold erroneously under the above names. The fruit of this 

 variety is round ; skin red j flesh sprightly acid ; juice abundant ; excellent 

 for the table and kitchen. It will hang long on the tree, in favourable wea- 

 ther, in June and July. 



LATE DUKE. Cense Anglaise tardive, Unique nouvelle. Fruit lar^e, 

 above the size of a May Duke ; obtuse heart shaped, rather flat ; skirt a 

 shining dark red ; flesh amber coloured, tender, juicy, and high flavoured. 

 Tree a great bearer, and ripens its fruit in July. 



MAY DUKK, Early Duke, and Cerise Guigne of Downing. Hoi- 



