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TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



forcing fort. This Cherry, in my opinion, is well worth 

 cultivating. It ripens in the beginning of July. 



15. Frafer' s Black Tartarian Cherry * is a fine large fruit. 



16. Frafer's White Tartarian Cherry is white and transpa- 

 rent. Thefe Cherries are excellent bearers, but particularly 

 the black kind : the fruit is of a fine brifk flavour, and they 

 ripen early. 



1 7. The Lundie Gean, cultivated at Lord Vifcount Dun- 

 can's, near Dundee, is black, and almoft as large as a Black- 

 Heart Cherry. It is now common in the nurleries about 

 Edinburgh ; and Me firs. Gray and Wear have had it for fome 

 years in their nurfery at Brompton-park. 



18. The Tranfparent Gean is a fmall delicious fruit. 

 From the Black Cherry, which is foppofed to be a native 



of England, are raifed, by feeds, the black Coroun, and the 

 fmall wild Cherry, of which there are two or three varieties, 

 differing in the fee and colour of their fruit. I would recom- 

 mend planting thefe in parks and pleafure-grounds, as the 

 trees grow to a great fee, and have a beautiful appearance. 

 The fruit will be food for birds, and fo the means of preferv- 

 ing the finer fruit, in the garden and orchard, from their de- 

 predations. The wood alfo of thefe trees is very ufeful for 

 turners and picture- frame makers. Stocks to graft upon are 



* The Tartarian Cherries were "brought from Ruffia in the Autumn of the year 1796 

 by Mr. John Frafer, of Sloane-fquare, Chelfea ; well known for his indefatigable induftry 

 in colle&ing many curious plants, and other natural curiofities, in America and the 

 Weft Indies. He fays, that thefe Cherries are natives of the Crimea, and that he pur- 

 chafed them of a German, who cultivated them in a garden near St. Peterlburg. This man 

 had but few plants of them atthat time, and fold them as a favour at ten roubles a plant. 

 Mr. Frafer afterwards faw them in the Imperial gardens, where they were fuccefsfully 

 forced in pots. 



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