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table cherry to eat as a dessert, the same as the sweeter varieties, 

 it is one of the finest for pies, puddings, &c., and will answer for 

 these when about two-thirds ripe, with plenty of sugar at this 

 stage ; when ripe the best kinds are of good size, the trees good 

 bearers generally, and when full of fruit liave a beautiful appea- 

 rance, contrasted with the green leaves ; they are very easily 

 raised, require a good soil, the shoots spring up every where 

 were the tree grows, it will grow thriftily from the roots, suckers 

 or seeds, and I have known them to bear two years from trans- 

 planting the shoots and three from the seed, and increase in the 

 quantity of fruit, as the tree increases in size, and thus unfailing, 

 almost every year, more or less. They are not preyed upon so 

 much by insects as the sweeter kinds, still they suffer at times 

 some, I have seen nurseries spring up where the trees grow, and 

 become shortly troublesome from their rapid growth and num- 

 bers, and the farmers were obliged to dig them up or cut them 

 down and make fire wood of them, not wishing to increase their 

 number by transplantation. Latterly, they are as much sought 

 after I think in our markets as many of the sweeter kind, and 

 more than some ; our gardeners and farmers ought to raise more 

 of them, as it is thought from the ease and certainty of their 

 growth and qualities as bearers, they would pay as well as any. 

 The little honey cherry^ resembles them in quantity and certainty 

 of bearing; of a fine flavor, a little tart, but not as muph so as 

 the sour chwry^ so called. The former it is said, will not suffer 

 from the long spell of hot moist foggy weather we sometimes 

 have about cherry time, and causes most of the sweet delicate 

 kind to rot on the tree. 



Colonization et Agriculture de VAlgeiie. By L. Moll, Paris, 1845 : 

 Extracts translated by H. Meigs, 1852. 



The camel does not afford as many advantages to our colonists 

 as to the Arabs ; it is even probable that, in proportion as roads 

 shall be opened, they will lose their importance in the eyes of 

 the latter, at least in the northern ^rt of Tell, for the camel, 

 being adapted to the pack-saddle only, and also more to plains 

 than mountains, must necessarily give place to vehicles and 

 draught animals wherever there are roads. The chief advantages 



