210 Some Account of three new Cherries. 



paler than that of the Black Eagle Cherry. Should this 

 peculiarity of change of colours continue to characterize the 

 immature fruit, it will effectually serve to identify the 

 variety, though by an appearance, at one period, which is 

 very far from being agreeable. In form, this Cherry is more 

 conic towards its point than the Black Eagle, and it is a full 

 size larger than that variety. 



I beg leave to suggest to the Society the expediency 

 of publishing, annually, their decisions upon the merits of 

 such new varieties of fruits as are presented to, and ap- 

 proved by them: for I have recently had occasion to observe, 

 that the effects of different soils, and culture, upon many 

 varieties of fruit, are much more extensive than I previously 

 conceived, and, possibly, than any other person has imagined. 

 The individual who has raised a new variety of fruit, however 

 excellent it may be, cannot be certain of, nor responsible 

 for, its merits, when it is transferred to a different soil, or 

 climate; and therefore it is desirable, that the Society 

 .should decide upon the merits of such fruit, in the state it 

 was presented to them, and report, as far as practicable, 

 the kind of soil, and climate, in which it grew. The same 

 variety of Apple, which, when it is the produce of one 

 soil, will remain sound and perfect till March or April, will 

 from another soil, become mealy and insipid in the end of 

 October. The skins also of many varieties of Grape will be 

 thick or thin, and the fruit, generally, good or bad, according 

 to the kind of culture given. I have seen the Autumn Ber- 

 gamotte and Swan's Egg Pear, when grown in a strong soil, 

 and the latter in one situation, in a light sand, remain as hard 

 as the Catillac Pear, and perish without becoming in the 



