154+ CHERRIES. 



purple. Juice purple, sweet, accompanied with a slight 

 bitter but agreeable taste. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of August. 



This Cherry grows wild, and is cultivated also, in 

 abundance, in several parts of England, particularly in 

 the Chiltern part of Buckinghamshire ; in Cheshire, and 

 about Polstead in Suffolk, where the fruit is called 

 Merries, from the French Merise. In the season they 

 are to be found in almost every principal market town 

 in England, where they always find a ready sale. It 

 is the principal fruit employed for the making of Cherry 

 brandy, and it is the only sort which ought to be used 

 by nurserymen for their stocks, on which to bud and 

 graft the better kinds. 



27* TOBACCO LEAVED. 



Bigarreautier a feuilles deTabac. Bon. Jard. 1827- 

 p. 296. 



Cerisier de 4 a la livre. Ib. 1825. p. 239- 



Four to the pound. Of some Nurseries. 



Quatre a la livre. Hort. Trans. Vol. iv. p. 511. 



Fruit small, heart shaped, of a pale transparent yellow 

 colour, with a faint stain of red on the exposed side. 

 Flesh of firm consistence, sweet and pleasant, but with- 

 out any particular richness. Stalk long and the stone 

 large, in proportion to the size of the fruit. 



Ripe in August. 



The young branches, in the Nursery, are very strong, 

 and crooked ; and the leaves of the very largest size. * 



How this Cherry should have obtained its name of 

 four to the pound, I am at a loss to conceive : its fruit 

 is not half the size of our Kentish Cherry, and not of 

 one fiftieth part of its value for any purpose what- 

 ever. Nurserymen will do well to get rid of it alto- 

 gether. 



28. WHITE HEART. Langley. 1. 18. f.4. 



Guignier a gros fruit Wane. Duhamel, 1. 1. f.3. 



