MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. si 



ry, a great bearer, and will, without doubt, be valuable as a 

 forcing sort. This cherry, in my opinion, is well worth culti- 

 vating. It ripens in the beginning of July. 



15. Fraser's Black Tartarian Cherry* is a fine large 



fruit. 



16. Fraser's White Tartarian Cherry is white and tran- 

 sparent. These cherries are excellent bearers, but particu- 

 larly the black kind : The fruit is of a fine brisk flavour, and 

 they ripen early. 



17. The Lundie Gean, cultivated at Lord Viscount Dun- 

 can's, near Dundee, is black, and almost as large as a Black- 

 Heart Cherry, It is now common in the nurseries about 

 Edinburgh ; and Messrs. Gray and Wear have had it for some 

 years in their nursery at Brompton-park. 



18. The Transparent Gean is a small delicious fruit. 



From the Black Cherry, w^hich is supposed to be a na- 

 tive of England, are raised, by seeds, the black Coroun, and 

 the Small Wild Cherry, of which there are two or three varie- 

 ties, differing in the size and colour of their fruit. I would 

 recommend planting these in parks and pleasure-grounds, as 

 the trees grow to a great size, and have a beautiful appear- 

 ance. The fruit will be food for birds, and so the means of 

 preserving the finer fruit, in the garden and orchard, from 

 their depredations. The wood also of these trees is very use- 

 ful for turners and picture-frame makers. Stocks to graft 

 upon are generally raised from the seed of this sort. These 

 trees will thrive in poor land, where scarcely any other sorts 

 will. 



The Cluster Cherry is planted more for ornament, or cu- 

 riosity, than for any other purpose. 



To the above may he added: 



Amber Heart, Ox Heart, 



Black Mazard, Purple Heart, 



Church-hills, Red Heart, 



Double-blossomed, Spanish Black, 



* The Tartarian Cherries were brought from Russia in the autumn of 

 the year 1796, by Mr. John Fraser, of Sloane-square, Chelsea ; well known 

 for his indefatigable industry in collecting many curious plants, and other 

 natural curiosities, in America and the West-Indies. He says, that these 

 cherries are natives of the Crimea, and. that he purchased them of a Ger- 

 man, who cultivated them in a garden near St. Petersburg. This man had 

 fcut few plants of them at that time, and sold them as a favour at ten roubles 

 a plant. Mr. Fraser afterwards saw them in the Imperial gardens, where 

 they ^yere successfully forced in pots. 



