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the fame that bears the name of the Gaf- 

 coin heart at Ragnal in Nottinghamfhire* 

 The owners of each place, at the time 

 they were planted, were both curious in 

 fruit: the one his late Grace the Duke 

 of Rutland, and the other Refm Mellifh, 

 Efq; And by what defcription I have had 

 from fsveral gentlemen of the fruit, it is 

 the fame cherry as the former^ but a fruit 

 of a valuable kind has often many names 

 given it, for undoubtedly it has many ad- 

 mirers, who are apt to call it by the 

 name of the place where they firil faw it, 

 or from the nobleman's or gentleman's 

 name v/ho owned it. 



As for inftance, I have in lefs than four 

 years paft, near Sleaford in Lincolnfliire, 

 met with a different kind of cherry to any 

 of the former ; it is called the Baramdam, 

 which is the name of the place where it 

 grows, in a perfecSl v/ild manner, fo that 

 not any one can give account of their 

 being planted. Mr. Pattifon the proprie- 

 tor of the land, and prefent inhabitant, 

 is now about fixty years of age, who told 

 me their number w^as greatly increafed in 

 his time j and he further added, that the 



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