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Notices of New or Remarkable 



scarlet all over, even the ripest seldom becoming dark red or 

 crimson. The calyx is hairy, and reflexed when the fruit is 

 quite ripe. Flesh very soft, bright red throughout, and in 

 flavour resembling the old Scarlet ; seeds yellow, few, small, 

 and deeply imbedded in the flesh. It bears abundantly if 

 planted in a light, but does not succeed in a heavy soil, and 

 the trusses carry the fruit high from the ground. It ripens 

 early in June, and continues bearing till the end of July or 

 beginning of August. 



Cherries. 



Specimens of Mr. Knight's Early Black Cherry were 

 exhibited from the garden of the Society. This Cherry has 

 been already described by Mr. Knight in the Society's 

 Transactions (Vol. iii. page 211,) but as it certainly will be 

 much cultivated in gardens it is desirable again to notice its 

 qualities, since they have been proved under the immediate 

 eye of the Society. The fruit is fully ripe at the time when 

 May Duke Cherries, on similar aspects, have only acquired 

 the colour which they have when they are first offered to sale 

 in the London market, in which state they are very inferior 

 fruit ; at that time the Early Black Cherry has assumed its 

 rich dark hue, and its flesh is then firm and juicy, and tole- 

 rably rich. The blossoms are produced in abundance before 

 those of any other sort. All the trees of it are of course young, 

 so that the steady productiveness of the variety remains to be 

 ascertained. 



Mr. Knight sent specimens of the Waterloo Cherry, for 

 the purpose of showing how great an improvement had been 

 produced in it by the increased maturity of the tree. It had 

 greatly improved in size, being larger than the Black Eagle ; 



