CER'ASUS VULGA'RIS. 
COMMON DOUBLE CHERRT. 
Class. 
1COSANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA 
Natural Order. 
DRCPACEJ!. 
Seedling 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Cultivated 
variety. 
12 feet. 
May, June 
Tree. 
in 1796. 
No. 1126. 
Cerasus, the name of an ancient town of Pontus, 
in Asia, whence the cultivated Cherry was taken 
to Italy, by the Roman General, Lucullus, about 
half a century before the birth of our Saviour. 
Authors have differed in opinion regarding the 
origin of our garden Cherries; some conceiving 
that we have two original species — the small wild 
black Cherry, and the sour red one ; it scarcely, 
however, admits of a doubt, that both have had 
the same origin, and that they are specifically 
identical. The double blossoming Cherry, which 
we now publish, is not likely to determine the 
question, nor can it be confidently stated from 
which of the varieties before mentioned, it had its 
origin. Its beauty is of rather short duration; but 
during its continuance in flower, a more elegant 
or striking shrubbery nosegay can scarcely be con- 
ceived. All the anthers of the common variety are, 
in this, changed into petals, and the pistillum into 
6mall green leaves; hence are formed, miniature 
roses, of the most delicate and perfect character. 
It is propagated by grafting on common Cherry 
stocks, and will grow in any soil. 
