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LI. Some Account of three new Cherries, the Elton, Black 

 Eagle, and Waterloo. In a Letter to the Secretary. By 

 Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. F.R.S. §c. President. 



Read March 5, 1816. 



My dear Sir, 



I send a few grafts of three new varieties of Cherries, the 

 Elton, the Black Eagle, and that to which the Fruit Com- 

 mittee of the Horticultural Society gave, in the last season, 

 the name of the Waterloo Cherry. Of the two first mentioned 

 varieties I have already given descriptions, relative to the 

 growth and habits of the trees ; and I have, therefore, only to 

 give such an account of the Waterloo Cherry, as the very 

 limited means I have had of ascertaining its habits will 

 enable me to furnish. This Cherry, like the Black Eagle, 

 sprang from a seed of the Ambree of Du Hamel, and the 

 pollen of the May-Duke ; and in the growth of its branches it 

 a great deal resembles the latter variety ; but its buds and 

 leaves are larger, and more pointed. It sprang from the 

 largest and finest Ambree Cherry that I ever saw ; and I 

 imagine that it was the best fed ; for it stood alone upon a 

 tree which was well capable of bearing, at least, half a dozen 

 pounds of Cherries. I had not suffered so much as one 

 hundredth part of the blossoms to remain upon the tree ; and 

 of sixty blossoms, which had been the subject of my experi- 

 ment, fifty-nine were destroyed by frost. I anticipated the 

 appearance of a fine Cherry from the seed of the single one 



