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LXXVIII. Further Particulars of the Elton, the Black Eagle, 

 and the Waterloo Cherries. By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 

 F. R. S. $c. Secretary. 



Read January 7, 1817. 



r President having expressed a wish that any new fruits 

 sent to the Society, should be subjected to the examination 

 of some of its Members, in order that their merits should 

 not rest solely on the report of the person who raised them, 

 I have endeavoured to comply with his desire in the follow- 

 ing notes on those varieties of the Cherry lately produced 

 at Downton, which were exhibited to the Society in the last 

 summer; I have drawn them up from the information re- 

 ceived from the President, and from the observations of 

 Mr. Hooker and myself on the samples we received. 



The Elton Cherry, of which an account will be found at 

 page 137, was figured by Mr. Hooker in the first Fasciculus 

 of his Pomona Londinensis, Plate VII. ; it was raised in 1806 

 from a seed of the Bigarreau or Grafhon Cherry of the Lon- 

 don gardens, impregnated by the pollen of the White Heart 

 Cherry. It is of the Bigarreau tribe, much resembling its 

 female parent in colour ; the fruit is heart-shaped, and that 

 now produced by the tree is larger than represented in Mr. 

 Hooker's figure, ripening about a fortnight before the Graf- 

 fion ; the Flesh is not hard, is sweet, juicy, and of a delicate 

 flavour. The Foot-stalk of the fruit is remarkably long, and the 

 petals are tinged with crimson. The plant has proved to be a 



