The Cherry. 



The wood of this tree is beautiful in household furniture : 

 it is of a light brick colour, very hard, very durable, and 

 admits of as fine a polish as mahogany; and is, whether in 

 tables, chairs, bedsteads, or any other thing, much more 

 beautiful. It is a fast-growing tree; its leaves are long, 

 smooth, and of a very bright green ; and, as a flowering tree, 

 it yields to scarcely any. 



188. The SEED of this tree is a little oblong cherry- 

 stone, which, as to collecting, preserving, and sowing, is 

 to be treated precisely like the stones of our wild cherry. 

 The Americans gather the fruit for the making of cherry- 

 rum, or hraiidy, for which purpose it is preferred to the 

 common black cherry, which we call 3 ferries, that being a 

 corruption of the Norman term Merise. But, thougTi this 

 tree is as hardy as any other of the Cherry kind, thriving 

 as it does, even on the sea coast, in the Northern parts of 

 the United States ; and, though it will blow very finely in 

 England, its seed never does, I believe, ripen here, and 

 must therefore be obtained from America, as it easily may, 

 making a barrel supply the place of the shed, or the cellar, 

 for keeping the seed till the sowing season arrive. 



189. These trees, when they come out of the nursery, 

 ought to be put into plantations, at four feet apart; for, 

 in that situation, they will grow erect, which they are apt, 

 sometimes, not to do, if they have room to straggle. They 

 ought to be kept pruned up, as directed in the case of the 

 other Cherries, in paragraph 183. As to cutting doivn the 

 year after planting, see paragraphs 127 and 149. 



