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XXXIV. An Account of Two New Varieties of Cherry. 

 In a Letter to the Secretary. By Thomas Andrew 

 Knight, Esq. F.R.S. $c. President. 



Read November 1, 1814. 

 My dear Sir, 



I send a few buds of the seedling Cherry trees, the produce 

 of which, I have the pleasure to hear from you, was approved 

 by the Fruit Committee of the Horticultural Society ; and in 

 obedience to their wishes, I add the following account of 

 the origin of those varieties. The mode of culture adopted 

 by me was precisely the same as I had previously used in 

 producing varieties of other species of fruit ; and which I 

 have detailed in a former communication :* and I therefore 

 need not trespass upon the time of the Society by describing it. 



Both varieties sprang from seeds of the Cherry, which Mr. 

 Forsyth has called the Graffion, and which gardeners gene- 

 rally call the Bigarreau, but erroneously, for it is evidently 

 the Ambree of Duhamel ; and the Bigarreau is a perfectly 

 distinct kind. 



The pale variety is the offspring of a blossom which was 

 fecundated by the pollen of the White Heart Cherry ; and it 

 is distinguishable from every other Cherry, with which I am 

 acquainted, by a deeper tinge of crimson in the petals of its 

 blossoms, and by the extraordinary length of its fruit-stalks. 

 Mr. Hooker has given a very accurate and excellent deli- 

 neation of this variety, under the name of the Elton Cherry, 



* See vol. i. page 34, &c. 



