March. 
Fi. 23. 
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NUMBER. XXVIII. 
“For the Middle of MARCH. 
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PLEASURE-GARDEN, 
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Flowers and curious Plants now in their Perfection. 
1 DOUBLE-BLOSSOMED. CHERRY. 
| UR Student knows the Multiplicity of | ferv’d this Tree, and he retain’d its ufual Name March. 
Petals in a Flower does not raife the 
7 Plant, in which they are found, to ‘the 
Rank of a diftinét Species: where this is all the 
Difference, Botany confiders the Dowble and 
Single as the fame Plant ; and in this Work, 
while we regard with the Gardener’s or the Flo- 
rift’s Eye, the Beauty which refults from fuch | 
Luxuriance, we confider the Plant or Tree as the | 
fame with that which bears the fimpleft Flower ; 
and refer thither for its Character. 
The Double-bloffom’d Cherry is a Variety of the 
common Kind; and indeed a very elegant one. 
Its Beauty has not efcap’d the ‘Attation of the 
Botanical Writers. : 
name it Cerafus hortenfis flore pleno.—The Student 
will know he is to refer it to the common Cherry ; 
but he will be a little ftartled to hear the modern 
Syftem takes away the Name Cera/us even from 
this. 
Linn us, whom all follow, refers the Cherry 
to the Prunus Kind ; and our Botanift muft, after 
him, call it Prunus pedunculis fimplicibus, foliis 
ovato lanceolatis, conduplicatis: Single-ftalk’d Pru- 
-nus, with conduplicated Leaves, of an oval. but 
‘f{pear-pointed Form. 
In his former Works a. thorter Diftinétion 
Numb. XXVHI. 
CC. Bavuuine, and the reft, 
Sides parallel. 
Cerafus foliis ovato lanceolatis: the oval fpear- 
pointed leav’d Cherry. This HALLER oh VAN 
Royven follow. 
The Tree will rife to a confiderable Height ; 
but it is better kept at an under Growth, with a 
full Head, that its Flowers may ftand clofe, and 
give their Beauty diftinétly to the Eye. 
The Stem is covered with a dark brown Bark ; 
the Branches are numerous and {trageline’; she 
young Twigs flender and tough. 
The Leaves are numerous, oblong, of a Shape 
fomewhat approaching to oval, but running out 
into a Point 5 ferrated at the Edges, and of a deep 
green. 
The Linnean Term Conduplicated, which we 
have preferved in the Tranflation of the Name, re- 
gards the Difpofition of the Leaves while in the Bud. 
‘The Leaves of Trees are varioufly difpos’d 
while bury’d: in that little Lump ; and this Term 
expreffes fuch as in that State lie with the two 
‘We have exprefs’d it in fome of 
the lefs open’d Leaves in the annexed Figure. 
The Flowers are double in a various Degree, 
on different Kinds, as the Gardener calls them : 
in fome there are only three Rows of Petals; and 
in this State the Tree is call’d Cerafus flore rofee : 
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