The Orchard. 



The foft (held Cherrie is a fmall red cherrie when it is ripe, hauing the (lone within 

 it fo foft and tender, that it may eafily be broken in the eating of the cherrie. 



lohn Tradefcantes Cherrie is moft vfually fold by our Nurfery Gardiners, for the 

 Archdukes cherrie, becaufe they haue more plenty thereof, and will better be increa- 

 fed, and becaufe it is fo faire and good a cherrie that it may be obtruded without much 

 difcontent : it is a reaf enable good bearer, a faire great berrie, deepe coloured, and a 

 little pointed. 



The Baccalaos or New-found-land Cherrie hath a mining long leafe, moft like vnto 

 a Peach leafe, the bloffomes come very many together as it were in an vmbell, which 

 is fuch a clufter as is neither like the Flanders clufter, nor the wilde clufter cherrie blof- 

 fome : it bringeth forth berries ftanding in the fame manner euerie one vpon his own 

 footeftalke, being no bigger then the largeft berrie of the red Curran tree or bum, of a 

 pale or waterim red colour when it is ripe. 



The ftrange long clufter Cherrie, or Padus Theophrafti Dalechampio is reckoned by 

 the Author of that great Herball that goeth vnder his name, among the forts of cher- 

 ries ; and fo muft I vntill a fitter place be found for it. It groweth in time to be a great 

 tree, with a fad coloured barke both on the bodie and branches, whereon doe grow 

 many leaues, fomewhat broade, fhorter, harder, and a little more crumpled then any 

 cherrie leafe : the bloffomes are very fmall, and of a pale or whitifh colour, fmelling 

 very fweete and ftrong, or rather heady, like Orenge flowers, growing on fmall long 

 branches, very like the toppe of flowers vpon the Laburnum or Beane trefoile trees : 

 after which come fmall blacke berries, growing together all along the long ftalke, like 

 vnto the wilde clufter or birds cherrie mentioned before, but not much bigger then 

 tares, with fmall ftones within them, and little or no fuftance vpon them : the French 

 call the tree Puller^ becaufe the wood thereof ftinketh, and make it to be wonderfull 

 that the bloffomes of the tree fhould be fo fweete, and the wood fo ftinking. 



The Cullen Cherrie is a darke red cherrie like the Agriot, which they of thofe parts 

 neere Cullen and Vtrecht &c. vfe to put into their drinke, to giue it the deeper colour. 



The great Hungarian Cherrie of Zwerts is like both in leafe and fruite vnto the 

 Morello cherrie, but much greater and fairer, and a far better bearer : for from a fmall 

 branch hath beene gathered a pound of cherries, and this is vfuall continually, and not 

 accidentally, moft of them foure inches in compaffe about, and very many of them 

 more of a faire deepe red colour, and very fweete, excelling the Arch-Dukes cherry, 

 or any other whatfoeuer. 



The Cameleon or ftrange changeable Cherry deferuedly hath this name, although 

 of mine owne impofition, not only becaufe it beareth vfually both bloffomes, greene 

 and ripe fruit at one time thereupon, but that the fruit will be of many formes ; fome 

 round, fome as it were fquare, and fome bunched forth on one fide or another, abiding 

 conftant in no fafhion, but for the moft part mewing forth all thefe diuerfities euerie 

 yeare growing vpon it : the fruit is of a very red colour, and good tafte. 



The great Rofe Cherry, or double bloffomd Cherry differeth not in any thing from 

 the Englifh Cherrie, but only in the bloffomes, which are very thicke of white leaues, 

 as great and double as the double white Crowfoote, before remembred, and fometimes 

 out of the middle of them will fpring another fmaller flower, but double alfo ; this fel- 

 dome beareth fruit, but when it doth I fuppofe it commeth from thofe bloffomes are 

 the leaft double, and is red, no bigger then our ordinary Englifh cherrie. 



The leffer Rofe or double bloffomd Cherrie beareth double flowers alfo, but not fo 

 thicke and double as the former ; but beareth fruit more plentifully, of the fame colour 

 and bigneffe with the former. 



The Dwarfe Cherrie is of two forts ; one whofe branches fall downe low, round a- 

 bout the body of it, with fmall greene leaues, and fruit as fmall, of a deep red colour. 



The other, whofe branches, although fmall, grow more vpright, hauing greener mi- 

 ning leaues : the fruit is little bigger then the former, red alfo when it is ripe, with a lit- 

 le point at the end : both of them of a fweetifh rellifh, but more fower. 



The great bearing Cherry of M after Millen is a reafonable great red cherry, bearing 

 very plentifully, although it bee planted againft a North wall, yet it will bee late ripe, 

 but of an indifferent fweet and good rellifh. 



The long finger Cherry is another fmall long red one, being long & round like a fin- 

 ger, wherof it took the name : this is not the Vrinall cherry before, but differing from it. 



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