64 EVERSLEY GARDENS 



as far as garden and orchard kinds go, oddly 

 enough the Wild Cherry flourishes amazingly 

 in wood and hedgerow. The enormous 

 old Cherry tree at the foot of the Mount, 

 though sadly broken and disfigured by storms 

 and age, still shows a cloud of white oil its 

 remaining branches in spring ; while several 

 great round-headed trees in Eversley Wood 

 rise like domes of some snow-built mosque 

 above the flushing green of the undergrowth. 

 When the wild and orchard Cherries are still 

 in bloom in late April and early May, fresh 

 delights unfold for us in the single and double 

 garden varieties. Cerasus avium (syfoestris), 

 the double-flowered Gean, with its profusion 

 of snowy blossoms, is followed by C. vulgaris 

 fl. pi. , and its improved form C. ranunculi/bra. 

 The exquisite blush, pink, and rose-colour of 

 the Japanese Cherry, C. pseudo-cerasus, explains 

 to those of us who have never reached that 

 Farthest East the enthusiasm that reigns in 

 Japan during the famous Cherry-blossom 

 feasts; and with its many double and semi- 

 double varieties, Fortunei, Siebolti, Watereri^ 



