been used in France many years for dwarf Cherries 
for gardens ; it bears root pruning better than the 
common Cherry stock ; and if the shoots of the 
plant are shortened in June or July, it soon forms 
a compact round bush.” We now have such trees, 
between two and three feet high, bearing fruit. 
Independently of its utility for the above men- 
tioned purpose, which we have been desirous of 
making more generally known, it forms an orna- 
mental shrub or tree for pleasure grounds ; and 
both its fruit and wood have long been, and now 
are, used on the continent. A description of its 
use is quaintly enough described by Gerard, who 
says “The fruit, or rather the kernell thereof, is as 
hard as a beade of Corail, somewhat round, and of 
a shining blacke colour; which the cunning French 
Perfumers do bore thorow, making thereof brace- 
lets, chaines, and such like trifling toyes, which 
they send into England, smeared ouer with some 
odde sweet compound or other, and they are here 
sold vnto our curious Ladies and Gentlewomen for 
rare and strange Pomanders, for great summes of 
money.” 
The wood possesses an agreeable fragrance, is 
very hard, and of a reddish tint, and is frequently 
used on the continent for cabinet work, indiscrim- 
inately with that of the Bird Cherry — Cerasus 
padus, No. 49G. On the continent too, at least in 
France, where more science is applied to the manu- 
facture of perfumes than in England, both the 
wood and the leaves of the Cerasus Mahaleb are 
used for the purpose, and from them an agreeable 
fragrant distilled water is prepared. 
