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dense. It acquired the title adopted in consequence of its 

 producing ripe fruit at All-Saints day. 



DWARF SIBERIAN. Pr. cat. 



Prunus chamcBcerasus. \ Cerasus chammcerasus. N. Duh. 

 Cerisier de Siberie. 



This variety attains at most but three to four feet in height; 

 its branches are very numerous, forming a dense shrub ; the 

 leaves are of a long-oval form, with short petioles ; the flowers 

 have rather long peduncles, and are sometimes solitary, but 

 most generally united in umbels of from three to five each, 

 which are sessile and axillary ; the fruit is globular, of a bright 

 red colour, and about the size of our smallest cherries ; the 

 flesh is red, very acid, but not disagreeable when perfectly 

 ripe. The flowers expand in April, and the fruit ripens about 

 two months afterwards. It is deemed the most suitable species 

 to furnish stocks for dwarf trees of the fine varieties, being 

 exceedingly hardy, and requiring no particular care. It was 

 introduced by the author about eight 3'ears since. 



WEEPING. Pk cat. 

 Prunus pendula. Fern-leaved. 



This variety seems nearly allied to the All-Saints and Dwarf 

 Siberian, but its branches are far more pendent than those of 

 any other cherry. The tree is usually ingrafted at six or 

 eight feet from the ground, when it forms a round and very 

 compact head, which is rendered dense by the innumerable 

 slender branches which shoot fordi in every direction; this head 

 seldom exceeds four or five feet in diameter, and from it the 

 delicate branches weep on all sides until they trail upon the 

 earth, thus presenting to the view a most interesting and singu- 

 lar spectacle, highly ornamental to the pleasure-ground. The 

 fruit is of medium size, and when fully ripe is of a pleasant 

 acid flavour, similar to the Morello, and ripens about the same 

 time. Two trees imported from London, one under the name 

 of Fern-leaved, and the other under that of Prunus pendula, 

 have proved to be the present variety. 



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