THE CURRANT. 487 



WEEPING, OR ALL-SAINTS. 



Ever-Flowering Cherry. C. vulgaris, semperflorens. 



Cerise de la Toussaiute. Guignier a rameaux pendans. 



Cerise Tardive. Cerisier Pleurant. 



Cerise de St. Martin. St. Martin's Amarelle. 



Martin's WeichseL Monats Amarelle. 



Allerheiligen Kirsche. 



This charming little tree, with slender, weeping branches, clothed 

 with small, almost myrtle-like foliage, is a very pleasing ornament when 

 introduced on a lawn. Its fruit is a small, deep red Morello, which is 

 acid, and in moist seasons is produced for a considerable period succes- 

 sively. When grafted, as it generally is, about the height of one's 

 head, on a straight stem of the common Mazzard, it forms a beautiful 

 parasol-like top, the ends of the branches weeping half way down to the 

 ground. 



SELECTIONS OF CHOICE CHERRIES FOR FAMILY USE, 

 TO RIPEN IN SUCCESSION. 



Early Purple G-uigiie, Belle d'Orleans, Mayduke, Bigarreau, Rock- 

 port, Black Tartarian, Elton, G-ov. Wood, Coe's Transparent, Osceola, 

 Delicate, Downer's Late, Reine Hortense, Belle Magnifique, Kentish. 



The hardiest Cherries are the Kentish (or Early Richmond), the 

 Dukes, and the Morellos. These succeed well at the farthest limits, 

 both North and South, in which the Cherry can be raised ; and when 

 all other varieties fail, they may be depended on for regular crops. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



THE CURRANT. 



Ribe-s rubrum, Lin. Grossulacece, of botanists. 



Oroseillier commun, of the French ; Die Johannixbcere, German ; Albesseboom, 

 Dutch ; Ribes rosso, Italian ; and Grosella, Spanish. 



THE name Currant is said to be derived from the resemblance in the 

 fruit to the little Corinth grapes or raisins, which, under the name of 

 Currants, are sold in a dried state in such quantities by grocers ; the latter 

 word being only a corruption of Corinth, and the fruit of this little 

 grape being familiarly known as such long before the common currants 

 were cultivated. 



The Currant is a native of Britain, and the north of Europe, and is, 

 therefore, an exceedingly hardy fruit-bearing shrub, seldom growing 



