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exceedingly abundant cropper, coming early into bearing and 

 continuing to extremest old age. • When about half ripe, at 

 which time the fruit is of a bright red, it may be used for pies, 

 tarts and aU cooking purposes, and when fully ripe, when it has 

 become of a dark mahogany color, it is a very agreeable dessert 

 fruit; and if there be any cherry that can be profitably planted 

 for market, this is the cherry that wiU yield the most sure re- 

 turns. The tree is a moderately vigorous grower, never becom- 

 ing very large, and forming a rounded, spreading head. The 

 fruit is of medium size, with a juicy, melting flesh, of a rich, 

 sprightly, acid flavor, ripening from the middle of June to the 

 end of July. 



Mayduke. — ^Were this variety as hardy as the one last de- 

 scribed it would stand at the head of the Ust, but although a 

 very hardy sort, it is just a Uttle less hardy than the Kentish. 

 Owing to this want of hardihood the tree sometimes fails where 

 the Kentish stands, and the crop of feuit is oftener injured or 

 destroyed even where the tree survives. Yet every one should 

 give this variety a trial where there is hope that any cherry will 

 thrive, and if it succeeds he will ever after be gratified that he 

 has made the trial. It is supposed that the Mayduke originated 

 in France, whence it has been very widely dififased, and though 

 it has been a long time in cultivation, none of the newer sorts 

 have been found to be in aU respects its equal. The tree is a 

 vigorous, upright grower, and when young assumes a form much 

 like that of a young Lombardy Poplar. It is a regular and 

 abundant bearer. The fruit is of fuU. medium size, borne in 

 clusters, and when fully ripe a dark duU red. The flesh is ten- 

 der, juicy, melting, and of excellent flavor. Eipe the latter part 

 of June. Much esteemed' by the fruit growers of Nova Scotia. 



Pltjmstone Mobello. — ^This variety is very hardy, and of 

 very slow growth ; making, when worked on the Mahaleb Cherry 

 stock, a nice pyramidal bush. Its dwarf habit has prevented 

 this variety from being very generally planted, but its apparent 

 hardihood makes it worthy of more extended trial. We have 



