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CHERRIES. 



thousands of the trees have been disseminated in the Union. 

 I copy the following description from the Pomological Manual : 

 " This cherry is generally considered to have been brought 

 into this country by the late Mr. John Fraser, from Russia. 

 In the account given of it in the Pomona Londinensis, it is 

 stated to have been introduced from Circassia by Mr. Hugh 

 Ronalds, of Brentford, in 1794. We have also heard it said 

 that it originated in Spain, whence it was transmitted to the 

 Russian Gardens, and through them into England. It is a 

 cherry of great excellence, bearing well as a standard, but 

 doing best on an east or west wall, on which its branches are 

 usually loaded with a profusion of rich and handsome fruit. 

 It has received in our gardens a variety of names, of which 

 those given here are only a portion ; but those which are omit- 

 ted are readily referable to some of the above. The wood 

 is vigorous ; the branches upright, the bark of the young 

 shoots light-coloured and spotted ; leaves large, pendulous, 

 waved on the margin, evenly serrated, deep green, veins pro- 

 minent beneath ; flowers large ; petals roundish oval, concave 

 and imbricating ; stamei^s shorter than the styles ; fruit large, 

 heart-shaped, with an uneven surface, and of a shining pur- 

 plish black colour ; flesh purplish, juicy and rich ; stone mid- 

 dle-sized, roundish ovate." 



WHITE TARTARIAN. Pr. cat. Pr. hort. For, 



LOND. HORT. CAT. 



White Transparent, 

 Transparent Crimea. 

 Fraser^s White Tartarian, 



White Transparent. 



Lady Southampton's Duke. 

 Yellow. 



The cherry, long cultivated and most generally known by 

 this title, I discovered, a few years since, to be entirely erro- 

 neous, it being nothing more than a half barren variety of the 

 White Heart. The genuine kind is a beautiful fruit, of me- 

 dium size, excellent quality, and of a transparent appearance. 

 The tree grows rapidly, erect like the White Heart, and bears 

 well ; the fruit ripens in June, and is highly esteemed. 



