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PARAMDAM {Baramdam).—8m&a and round, not quite half an 

 inch in diameter. Skin, pale red. Stalk, an inch long. Flesh, pale, 

 tender, with an agreeable and hvely acidity. 



It ripens in the end of July. The tree is of very diminutive 

 growth ; one in my possession, not less than 100 years old, being 

 little more than seven feet high, and the stem not so thick as a man's 

 arm. 



This is a variety of the native Cerasus vulgaris. It was first brought to my 

 notice by a reference to Hitt's " Treatise of Fruit Trees," and on application to 

 my friend, the Kev. Henry Manton, of Slcaford, he was so good as to procure me 

 trees from the very holt to which Hitt refers in the following account of it: — 



" I have near Sleaford in Lincolnshire met with a diiferent kind of cherry to 

 any of the former j it is called the Baramdam, which is the name of the place 

 where it grows, in a perfect wild manner, so that not any one can give account of 

 their being planted. Mr. Pattison, the proprietor of the land, and present in- 

 habitant, is now (1755) about sixty years of age, who told me their ntmiber was 

 greatly increased in his time ; and he further added that the same land had been 

 the property of his father and grandfather, both of whom he knew very well, but 

 neither of them was ever able to give him any account of its being planted. And 

 1 am by just reasons prompt to say there is no marks of art in any part of the 

 Holt, but they increase by suckers like black thorns, and bear upon as small 

 bushes. I have more than once curiously examined them ; for, soon after the 

 time that I first saw them, I entered into a contract with the right honourable Lord 

 Robert Manners, which engaged me to reside the greatest part of my time at 

 Bloxholme, which is no more than five miles from Baramdam. I have got some 

 plants of the kind under my care, which thrive well and bear plentifully ; though 

 before I saw the original Holt, I had been told they would not thrive in any other 

 place ; but I find them quite to the contrary, for they wUl grow and bear upon 

 moist spungy land, where other cherries will not live long. This I have seen near 

 Ancaster, where I bought some young plants, and there was a. larger tree in that 

 ground than any one at Baramdam ; it was quite healthy and free from moss, 

 notwithstanding its roots were in water the greatest part of the year. 



" They will root well the first year of laying, and I think that the best way to 

 propagate them ; for the common kinds made use of for stocks are not so good, 

 being subject to make strong downright roots, whereas these are very fibrous, and 

 grow very near the surface. 



" I have propagated the Duke Cherry upon them, and it is not so subject to 

 blights as it is upon the wild black or red, though it does not make so strong 

 shoots ; but I think it is the better for that, for dwarfs or espaliers. 



" The trees upon their own roots never grow to be large ones, and the leaves 

 are small and smooth, and are of a bright colour ; the young shoots are small, 

 much like those of the Morella, and bear their fruit like them, the greatest part of 

 which ripens in August, and but few in July. 



" It is a middle-sized round cherry, of a red colour, and its taste is not quite so 

 sweet as some others ; though it is not a sour cherry, yet it has some little 

 flavour of bitter in it, like the wild black." 



Petit Cerise Eond Precoce. See Early May. 

 . Petit Cerise Eouge Precoce. See Early May. 

 De Palembre. See Belle de Choisy, 

 Pie Cherry. See Kentish. 

 Plantchoury. See Belle Magnifique, 



PONTIAC. — Fruit, large, obtuse heart-shaped, compressed on the 



