CHERRY.-CERASUS. 



In Botany, of the Icosandria Monogynia Class. 

 It was formerly considered by Botanists 

 as a distinct Genus; but Linn&us pro- 

 nounces it of the Prunus Species. 



THIS beautiful fruit was procured and 

 brought into Europe by the overthrow of 

 Mithridates, king of Pontus, when he was 

 driven from his dominions by Lucullus, the 

 Roman general, who found the cherry-tree 

 growing in Cerasus, a city of Pontus, (now 

 called Keresoun, a maritime town belong- 

 ing to the Turks in Asia,) which his army 

 destroyed, and from whence it derived the 

 present name of Cherry. Lucullus, who was 

 as great an admirer of nature as he was 

 of the arts, thought this tree of so much 

 importance, that when he was granted a 

 triumph, it was placed in the most con- 



