80 HISTORY OF FRUITS. 



belonging to his queen, Henrietta Maria, at Wimbledon 

 in Surrey, which was made in 1649, there were upwards of 

 two hundred cherry-trees in those gardens. ( Arch&ologia, 

 vol. x. p. 399.) 



We have observed, that the cherry-gardens in the vicinity 

 of London have what is termed an upper and an under 

 crop, which is produced by planting strawberries or cur- 

 rants, &c. between the trees ; and the latter fruit, we have 

 noticed, has been as fine, and as productive, as when 

 planted by itself, and engrossing the whole garden. 

 Philips says, the apple-tree is 



" Uneasy, seated by funereal yew, 

 Or walnut, (whose malignant touch impairs 

 All generous fruits,) or near the bitter dews 

 Of cherries ; therefore weigh the habits well 

 Of plants, how they associate best, nor let 

 111 neighbourhood corrupt their hopeful grafts." 



Lord Bacon has clearly elucidated what the ancients 

 considered the sympathy or antipathy of plants. " For it 

 is thus," says this great man : " wheresoever one plant 

 draweth such a particular juice out of the earth as it qua- 

 lifieth the earth, so that the juice which remaineth is fit 

 for the other plant : there the neighbourhood doeth good, 

 because the nourishments are contrary, or several ; but 

 where two plants draw much the same juice, there the 

 neighbourhood hurteth ; for the one deceiveth the other." 



The cherry, like many other kinds of fruit, has had its. 

 sorts so multiplied by various graftings and sowing the 

 seeds, that we now enjoy a great variety of this agree- 

 able fruit, and for a considerable portion of the sum- 

 mer, as it is one of the first trees that yields its fruit in 

 return for the care of the gardener. From the ripening 

 of the Kentish and the May-duke, to that of the Yellow 

 Spanish and the Morello, we may reckon full one third of 



