OF CHERRIES. (j5 



17. Fraser's Black Tartarian.* This is a 

 fine large fruit. 



18. Fraser's White Tartarian. This is white 

 and transparent. These Cherries are excellent 

 bearers, but particularly the black kind : the fruit 

 is of a fine brisk flavour, and they ripen early. 



19. I^UNDiE Gean. This sort, cultivated at 

 Lord Viscount Duncan's, near Dundee, is black, 

 and almost as large as a Black Heart Cherry. It 

 is now common in the nurseries about Edinburgh ; 

 and Messrs. Gray and Wear have had it for some 

 years in their nursery at Brompton Park. 



20. Transparent Gean. This is a small de- 

 licious fruit. 



From the Black Cherry, which is supposed to be 

 a native of England, are raised, by seeds, the black 

 Coroun, and the small white Cherry, of which 

 there are two or three varieties, differing in the 

 size and colour of their fruit. I would recom- 

 mend planting these in parks and pleasure-grounds, 

 as the trees grow to a great size, and have a beau- 



* The Tartarian Cherries were brought from Russia in the 

 Autumn of the year 1796, by Mr. John Fraser of Sloane-square, 

 Chelsea ; well known for his indefatigable industry in collecting 

 many curious plants, and other natural curiosities, in America 

 and the West Indies. He says, that these Cherries are natives 

 of the Crimea, and that he purchased them of a German, who 

 cultivated them in a garden near St. Petersburg. This man 

 had but few plants of them at that time, and sold them as a 

 favour at ten roubles a plant. Mr* Fraser afterwards saw them 

 in the Imperial gardens, where they were successfully forced in 

 pots. 



