On the Culture of the Prunus Pseudo-Cerasus, $c. 181 



acquiring. I have therefore addressed to the Horticultural 

 Society, the following observations upon the propagation and 

 culture of it, believing that I am better acquainted with the 

 means of propagating it than any other person is, though I 

 am sensible that I am but ill prepared to execute the task 

 which I have undertaken. 



I received a plant of the Chinese Cherry from the Garden 

 of the Horticultural Society in the summer of 1824, after it 

 had produced its crop of fruit ; and it was preserved under 

 glass, and subjected to a slight degree of artificial heat till the 

 autumn of that year. It appeared very little disposed to grow ; 

 but produced one young shoot, which afforded me a couple 

 of buds, for insertion in stocks of the Common Cherry. Soon 

 after Christmas the tree was placed in a pine-stove, where it 

 presently blossomed abundantly, and its fruit set perfectly 

 well, as it had previously done in the Garden of the Society, 

 and it ripened in March. The Cherries were middle sized, 

 or rather small compared with the larger varieties of the 

 Common Cherry ; they were of a reddish amber colour, very 

 sweet and juicy, and excellent for the season in which they 

 ripened. The roots of the tree were confined to rather 

 a small pot, and the plant was not even in a moderately 

 vigorous state of growth ; I therefore infer that the fruit 

 did not acquire either the size, or state of perfection, which 

 it would have attained, if the tree had been larger, and in 

 a vigorous state of growth, and the season of the year 

 favourable. 



I inserted the two buds, which I had obtained, into stocks 

 of the Common Cherry ; and they seemed to take well, but 

 both appeared lifeless in the spring, though one vegetated 



