P R U 



P R U 



ccLcied by small roundish fruit, at first grcc-n, 

 ntterwards red, but when ripe black; inclosing 

 a roundish furrowed stone or nut, which ripens 

 in August. It is a native of most parts of 

 Europe. 



It is commonly propagated in the nurseries as 

 an ornaaieatal tree or shrub, growino- well in 

 woods, groves or fields, but not in a moist soil. 

 ]t bears lopping, and suSers the grass to grow 

 under it. It is sometimes called the Cluster 

 ClK'rry Tree. 



'Jlie seventh rises with a straight upris;ht stem 

 more than twenty feet high : tlie branches are 

 shorter, and closer together than those of the 

 sixth sort, and naturally form a regular head : 

 the leaves are shorter and broader, and not so 

 rough : the flowers grow in closer shorter spikes, 

 standing more erect : the fruit is larger, and red 

 when ripe. It flowers a little later than the sixth 

 sort, as in May and June ; and the fruit ripens 

 in August. It grows naturally in Armenia. 



The eighth species rises with a thick stem 

 from ten to thirty feet high, dividing into many 

 branchesjwhich have a dark purple bark : the 

 leaves are ovate, alternate, on short footstalks, 

 of a lucid green, slightly serrate, and conti- 

 nuing in verdure as late in the autumn as any of 

 the deciduous trees : the fruit is larger than that 

 of the preceding, is black when ripe, and is soon 

 devoured by birds : the wood is beautifully vein- 

 ed with black and white, and polishes well. It 

 is a native of Virginia and other parts of North 

 America. 



In the ninth the branches are even : the leaves 

 less rigid than in the others, finely serrate, green 

 on both sides, but manifestly villose to the 

 touch, and ending in the petiole at the base. It 

 is a native of North America. 



The tenth species is a low crooked tree : the 

 •wood is red^ very hard, and sweet-scented : the 

 leaves wide and pointed, approaching to those 

 of the wild pear: the flowers white: the fruit 

 black, yielding a bitter purple juice, the stain 

 of which is not easily effaced : the stone is 

 smooth, round, and a little flatted on the sides ; 

 inclosing a bitter perfumed kernel. The birds 

 are very fond of the fruit. It is a native of 

 Germany, Switzerland, Austria, &;c. flowering 

 in April and May. Ray calls it Rock Cherry. 



The eleventh is rather a shrub, if we judge 

 from its growth in this climate; the stalk does 

 not rise more than three feet high, but sends 

 out lateral branches spreading on every side, 

 covered with a brown bark : the leaves are al- 

 ternate on very short footstalks, near two inches 

 long and three quarters of an inch broad, with 

 small acute indentures on their edges; they are 

 of a lucid green, continuing their verdure all 



the year. It is a native of South Carolina, 

 flowering in May. 



The twelfth species is a shrub sending off lon^ 

 spreading branches, covered with a smooth 

 brown bark : the leaves are elliptical or obovate, 

 slightly serrate, alternate, upon strong, short 

 foot-stalks : the flowers on short axillary pe- 

 duncles : the calyx ovate; segments refle.x, 

 pointed: the petals small, white": the filaments 

 about eighteen: the fruit resembling a black 

 cherry, both in its external and internal structure. 

 It difl'ers from the Portugal sort in having the 

 twigs and petioles green, whereas in that they 

 are reddish brown". The leaves are of a yel- 

 lowish green, whereas the green on the upper 

 surface is very dark in that ; they are also much 

 wider in proportion and elliptical, but in that 

 they are rather lanceolate ; they are both toothed 

 about the edge, but this more slightly, and the 

 serraturcs of this are ve y harsh to the touch, 

 as if they had prickles al'the end : the veins are 

 iiiuch more prominent at the back of the leaves 

 in this ; in that the leaves are commonly re- 

 pand along the edge ; but in this they are flat, 

 except that the edge is a little bent back. The 

 leaves in both are acuminate but end bluntly, 

 and they generally bend down at the point. 

 The young leaves are inclined to fold together 

 upwards, like those of the Cherry, in' this; 

 but in that they are rcvolute, leaving a wide 

 longitudinal hollow above : the old leaves are 

 generally imperfect at the end, and in this are 

 sometimes retuse or emarginate. The glands, 

 which are obsolete, are placed on each sTde the 

 midrib, about half an inch above the petiole. 

 It flowers in April, and is a native of the Le- 

 vant, of Caucasus, &c. 



The thirteenth rises with a strong tree-like 

 stem to the height of twenty feet or more, send- 

 ing out many branches on every side, which 

 have a shining purplish bark : the leaves are on 

 short foot-stalks, of a lucid green, about three 

 inches long, and an inch and^half broad in the 

 middle; they are sometimes slightly serrate, but 

 generally entire : the flowers 'are produ-ced in 

 long bunches from the side of the branches, 

 white, and shaped like those of the twelfth sort : 

 the berries arc oval, pulpy, at first green, then 

 red, and \\ hen ripe very dark purple ; smaller 

 than those of the last sort and narrower at the 

 end ; enclosing an oval stone, like that of the 

 Cherry, but more pointed at the top. It flowers 

 in June ; and is one of the most beautiful ever- 

 green shrubs, having a fine appearance in long 

 racemes of fine white flowers. It was intro- 

 duced from Portugal. 



Culhire in the Plum Kind. — It is obvious that 

 all the varieties were first obtained by seed, or 



