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THE BLACK TARTARIAN CHERRY. 



Black Tartarian Cherry. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. p. 21. 

 Black Circassian Cherry. Hooker's Pom. Lond. fol. 41. 

 Eraser's Black Tartarian . . 



Fraser's Black Heart 



Ronalds' Black Heart .... \ of various Gardens. 



Superb Circassian 



Black Russian 



This Cherry is generally considered to have 

 been brought into this country by the late Mr. 

 John Eraser, from Russia. In the account given of 

 it in the Pomona Londinensis, it is stated to have 

 been introduced from Circassia, by Mr. Hugh Ro- 

 nalds, of Brentford, in 1794. We have also heard 

 it said that it originated in Spain, whence it v^^as 

 transmitted to the Russian Gardens, and through 

 them into England. 



It is a Cherry of great excellence, bearing well 

 as a standard, but doing best on an east or west 

 wall, on which its branches are usually loaded 

 with a profusion of rich and handsome fruit. It 

 has received in our Gardens a variety of names, of 

 which those given here as synonyms are only a 

 portion ; but those which are omitted are readily 

 referable to some of the above. 



Wood vigorous. Branches, spreading, the bark 

 of the young shoots light-coloured and spotted. 



