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CHERRIES. 



different location^ in the garden or pleasure ground ; this 

 also has the advantage of blooming much later than the other, 

 and scarcely begins to expand its bloom until that has faded. 

 Duhamel describes a semi-double variety, which I have never 

 seen nor been able to procure. Miller mentions a double- 

 flowered cherry, but without any particulars, so that it is 

 impossible to decide whether he referred to this variety, or to 

 the one before described. 



ALL-SAINTS. Pr. cat. Lond. hdrt. cat. 



Pendent Jlowerin^. Ever-jkmering. Weeping cherry. 

 Cerise tardive, \ Prunus semperjlorens. Willd. Pers. synop. 

 Cerasus semperjlorens. N. Duh. Decand. Lond. Hort. cat. 

 ■n } of most European collections, erroneously, 



Prunus seroHna,^ but not of Pursh. Michaux, &c. 

 Cerise de la Toussaint. Cerise de St. Martin, 

 Cerisier a lafeuille. 



This variety forms naturally a tree of but medium size, with 

 very thickly-set branches, which are slender, feeble, and par- 

 tially pendent ; its leaves are alternate, of an oval and some- 

 what lanceolate form, indented on their borders, and have 

 usually a gland on each of the teeth next the petiole ; the 

 flowers are produced on slender pendent peduncles, and are 

 attended by bractes ; they do not begin to expand till June, 

 and continue to bloom in succession for a long period. The 

 appearance of the tree, with its weeping or drooping blossoms, 

 is peculiarly striking ; in addition to which circumstance, the 

 period of their expansion is when the other varieties of cherries 

 are mostly at maturity. The fruit is of the size of our smallest 

 cherries, and in taste somewhat resembles the Common Mo- 

 rello, being acid, and not very pleasant ; the skin is firm, and 

 of a pale colour, and the flesh white. The cherries ripen in 

 continuation, from the month of July to a much later period, 

 and the ripe fruit, green fruit, and flowers, may be often seen 

 on the tree at the same time. The quantity of fruit produced 

 is however so very small, that the tree is not of value except 

 as a curiosity. It is a hardy variety, but requires to have a 

 portion of the branches thinned out, or they will become too 



