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 The CHERRY TREE, 



THE Cherry Tree (Cera/us) is 

 famous for producing the ear- 

 lier!: ripe fruit, of any other kind of 

 fruit tree, attaining perfection at a fea- 

 fcfl when they prove exceedingly ac- 

 ceptable and refrefhing, both for the 

 defert and many culinary purpofes j is 

 by the modern Botanifts, confidered as 

 a fpecies of the Prunus or Plum-tree; 

 though was long diftinguifhed as a fe- 

 parate genus by the title r of Cera/us ; 

 and belongs to the clafs Ieofandria and 

 order Monogynia y flowers having twenty 

 cr more ftamina, and but one ftyle. 



There are two fpecies of the Cherry 

 cultivated as fruit-trees, viz. Common 



Cherry- 



