9:^ TREAT ISE 



Chapter XV. 



The wild CHERRY TREE-, 



In England, commonly called the Black Cherry- 

 In Scotland, the G e e n Tree. 



27?^ Species arz i 



1. Tlie cDmmon Black Geen, 



2. The common Red Geen. 



3. The large Hungarian Geen. 



4. The Geen Tree, with very fmall flones, and large- 



black fruit, 



^ I '^HOUGH this plant is not nfually clalTed in catalogues of 

 Foreft- trees, yet its flately fize, fine form, beautiful and 

 fragrant bloffoms, the various ufes of the fruit, and value of the 

 timber, certainly intitle it to our attention, and place it in no 

 mean rank, either for ornamental or ufeful plantations. 



It is propagated from the flones of their fruit, which fhould 

 not be gathered till perfectly ripe, and beginning to decay, 

 when they muft be divefted of the fleihy part ; and in four or five 

 days after, when the humidity is gone, mix them in fand, pro- 

 tected from inoifture, till the kernels are firm and dry, which 

 will be in about a month ; when, having prepared a fpot of 

 frefli mellow light foil, fow them in beds of three and. a half 

 feet broad, with alleys of eighteen inches between them. If the- 

 following winter is fevere, and the frofb flrong and lafling, during 

 that period throw fome Peafe-haulm, or other light covering over 

 them, to be regularly taken off on the weather's becoming mild. 



