CER'ASUS CHAMAECER'ASUS. 
GROUND CHERRY TREE. 
Class. Order. 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
DRUPACE.E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Cultivated 
Austria. 
6 feet. 
May. 
Shrub. 
in 1579. 
No. 1143. 
Cerasus, an ancient Asiatic town, near to which 
Cherry Trees are indigenous. See No. 1080. 
Independently of the Cerasus vulgaris, or com- 
mon Cherry, several distinct species bear an edible 
fruit; which with due cultivation, through a series 
of generations of these trees, may, it is probable, 
be productive of fruit of distinct qualities, and pos- 
sibly surpassing that which is now so much prized. 
It is not, perhaps, generally known, that the com- 
mon and the Portugal Laurel, are so nearly related 
to the Cherry, as to belong to the same genus. An 
examination of their fructification will show this. 
A marked difference between the inflorescence 
of the Cerasus chamsecerasus, here figured, and the 
Cerasus vulgaris, or common Cherry, will be ob- 
served ; the habit of the plant is also very different. 
Grown on its own roots, it is but a low bush ; hut 
grafted on standards, it forms a round head, which 
with its drooping branches, becomes very ornamen- 
tal, and has a novel effect. Its fruit is small, and 
very acid, but as previously suggested, a hybrid 
fruit between this and vulgaris, may prove an 
acceptable novelty. 
