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The Beach, or Sea-Side Plumb. There are several varieties 

 of this species growing plentifully on Plumb-Island. The 

 fruit of some of them, when fully ripe, is well-tasted. They 

 are easily propagated in gardens, by planting the stones in a mix- 

 ture of beach sand and loam, and will produce fruit in two or 

 three years. 



The Black Cherry Tree. It is common, grows large, and 

 the wood, which is smooth and hard, is used by cabinet-makers 

 in many kinds of work. They have the art of giving it a stain 

 which approaches the colour of mahogany. The fruit is rather 

 indifferent in its natural state,» but might probaby be greatly 

 improved by cultivation. It is infused in rum and brandy for 

 the sake of giving them an agreeable flavour. An infusion or 

 tincture of the inner bark is given with success in the jaundice. 

 The Small Black Cherry. The tree is small and shrubby, 

 and the fruit not so well flavoured as the large black cherry. 

 The Black Choke Cherry. A low shrub. The Large Red 

 Cherry. A small tree. The Dwarf Red Cherry. A very 

 low shrub. The Red Choke Cherry. A shrub. The Small 

 Pale Red Cherry. A small tree, and the fruit hard and ill- 

 tasted. 



The last-mentioned cherry tree abounds, where land has been 

 cleared, in the new plantations near White-Mountains, but is 

 rarely, if at all, found in the forests. Some have asserted, that 

 this species of cherry tree is not found in that part of the coun- 

 try, except in places where the native growth has been destroyed. 

 In land, where there is no kind of cherry trees after the old 

 growth, which consists chiefly of spruce, pine, beach and 

 birch, (exceedingly tall and large) has been fell and burnt 

 on the ground, there springs up, the next summer, an immense 



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