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The ^wcet Moyitmorency Cherry. 



Art. JIl. The Sweet Montmorency Cherry : an account of 

 its origin and qualities., with an engraving of the fruit. 

 By the Editor. 



In our volume for 1842, (VIII. p. 281,) the late Mr. Man- 

 ning gave a descriptive account of fo7^ty-four varieties of 

 cherries, which, during a series of years, he had gathered to- 

 gether from various sources, and proved in his Pomological 

 Garden, in Salem. Eight or ten of the varieties had never 

 been previously described, and of this number the Sweet 

 Montmorency was one. Mr. Downing, in his Fruits and 

 Fruit Trees, gives as his authority Mr. Manning, which is 

 perfectly correct ; but he omits to add, as he has done in nu- 

 merous instances, that his description was taken from our 

 Magazine, thus leaving Pomologists to believe, who might be 

 desirous of seeing the original description, that it appeared in 

 Mr. Manning's Book of Fruits. 



Some time since, we requested our correspondent, Mr. Allen, 

 to give us some account of the origin of the Sweet Montmo- 

 rency, which has proved so 

 valuable a variety, and we 

 now have the pleasure of pre- 

 senting the same to our read- 

 ers, with an engraving of the 

 fruit., {fg. 21.) 



" The Sweet Montmorency 

 cherry is an accidental seed- 

 hng, and was so named by the 

 late Mr. Manning, from its sup- 

 posed parent, the Montmorency 

 of the French, an early, acid 

 fruit. Several small seedling 

 trees were planted out, in the 



The Sxceet Montmorency . ^ i r^n a t xi 



Cherry. sprmg of 1834. and they came 



into bearing about 1836. This tree was the only one thought 

 worthy of cultivation, and it has every year since ripened a 

 crop, with very little, if any, injury from the weather. In 

 1841. the fruit was first exhibited at the rooms of the Horti- 



