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CHERRY. 



6. Coroune or Corone Cherry, — Ripens from the 

 middle to the end of July. This is a famous old sort, 

 and well known in the London markets, where im- 

 mense quantities are disposed of every year. It is 

 certainly one of our hardiest and surest bearers ; the 

 tree growing to very large size — even to that of 

 a timber tree, and for which it is valued by cabinet 

 makers. The fruit are about the size of a well-grown 

 white heart, and of a similar shape, only more blunt 

 at the point, and like that cherry produces its fruit 

 in pairs. The colour is dark purplish black, the 

 pulp very firm, which facilitates their cariiage to dis- 

 tant markets, the juice not so plentiful as that of the 

 black heart, but very sweet and pleasant. The tree 

 is not nice as to the soil it is planted in ; thriving 

 equally well in gravel on chalk, as it does in light 

 loam on lime stone rock ; as may be seen in Herts, 

 Bucks, and the neighbouring counties, where large 

 orchards of this cherry exist. In the counties just 

 named, they have three varieties of this fruit, viz, the 

 Bud, the Small Black, and the Honey, The last a 

 very small pale red one, but remarkably sweet, and 

 much used in the manufacture of cherry wine. The 

 corone is remarkable for rising from seed truer to 

 its kind than any other cherry. 



7. Lukeward's Cherry, — Ripens about the middle 

 of August. A very excellent fruit, much cultivated, 

 particularly in the county of Kent. It was brought 

 to England from Italy by a person whose name it 

 bears, towards the end of the seventeenth century. 

 The fruit in size and colour much resembles the 



