Cerasus caroliniana, 
THE CAROLINIAN CHERRY-TREE. 
Synonymes. 
Cerasus caronniana, 
Cerisier du Caroline, 
Kirschbaum von Carolina, 
Ciliegio di Carolina, 
Carolinian Bird Cherry-tree, 
Carolinian Cherry, Wild Orange, 
Michaux, North American Sylva. 
Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. 
Tokrey and Gray, Flora of North America 
France. 
Germany. 
Italy. 
Britain. 
United States. 
Engravings 
below. 
Michaux, North American Sylva, pi. 89; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, ii., fig. 423, and the figures 
Specific Characters. Evergreen. Leaves, with the petioles short ; and the disk lanceolate-oblong, mucro- 
nate, even, rather coriaceous, mostly entire. Flowers densely disposed in axillary racemes, that are 
shorter than the leaves. Fruit nearly globose, mucronate. De Candolle, Prodromus 
Description. 
Cerasus 
caroliniana, in 
D? LI K$ its natural hab- 
.M^m itat, usually at- 
tains a height of twenty to fifty feet, 
and ramifies at a short distance from 
the ground, forming a tufted head. 
The bark of the trunk is of a dun col- 
our, and is commonly without furrows 
or cracks. The leaves are smooth 
and shining on their upper surfaces, 
and are about three inches long. The 
flowers are white, and numerous, be- 
ing arranged in little bunches, from 
one inch to an inch and a half long, 
which spring from the axils of the 
leaves, in the month of March or April. 
The fruit, which is oval, and nearly black, consists of a soft stone, surrounded 
by a small quantity of green, inedible pulp. It remains upon the branches 
during the greater part of the second year, so that the tree is laden, at the same 
time, both with flowers and fruit. 
Geography and History. The Cerasus caroliniana appears to be principally 
confined to the Bahamas, and the islands along the coast of the Carolinas, Geor- 
gia, and Florida. On the main land, it is often found growing wild, at a dis- 
tance of a thousand miles from the sea. It was first made known to Europe by 
Catesby, who sent seeds to Miller in 1759, under the name of " bastard mahog- 
any." The largest recorded specimen in Britain is at Swallowfield, in Hamp- 
shire, which, in 1833, formed a shrub ten feet in height, with a head twelve feet 
in diameter. 
Properties and Uses. The wood of the Carolinian cherry is fine-grained, and 
"f a roseate hue ; but the scarcity, and inferior size of the tree, forbids its use in 
