138 Account of two new Varieties of Cherry. 



in his Pomona Londinensis : but as the tree has grown older, 

 the fruit has increased in size ; so that some of those I sent 

 to the Committee were half as large again as those he recei- 

 ved from me, and has delineated. 



The May-Duke Cherry is the male parent of the Black 

 variety * and the young tree resembles that very much in 

 its general character, and in the growth of its fruit in large 

 bunches. 



The trees of both varieties (which are only eight years old,) 

 are at present trained to walls ; the Elton on a north-west, 

 and the Black on an east-north-east aspect : but I am per- 

 fectly confident, that both will succeed thoroughly well as 

 standards, and that the Black one, so cultivated, will prove 

 excessively productive of fruit. The Elton Cherry tree has 

 borne well ; but it has never loaded itself so heavily as the 

 other. The Elton ripens about ten days before the Ambree, 

 and the Black soon after the May-Duke. The growth of 

 both trees is extremely luxuriant. 



These varieties were selected from about fifty seedling 

 plants, which afforded fruits of many different forms and 

 colours, and of very unequal merits, some differing little, 

 either in size or flavour, from the small black native variety 

 of our woods ; and one or two others, exclusive of those sent, 

 possessed a considerable share of richness. 



The Cherry sports more extensively in variety, when pro- 

 pagated from seeds, than any other fruit, which I have 

 hitherto subjected to experiment : and this species of fruit 

 is therefore probably capable of acquiring a higher state of 

 perfection than it has ever yet attained. New varieties are 

 * This has been called the Black Eagle Cherry. 



