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The Orchard. 
The foft {held Chcrrie is a fmall red cherrie when it is ripe, hauing the done within 
it fo foft and tender, that it may eafily bebroken in the eating of the cht rric. 
John X radefcantes Cherrie is mod vfually fold by our Nurfery Gardiners for the 
Archdukes cherrie, becaufe they haue more plenty thereof, and will better be increa 
fed, and becaufe it is fo faireand good a cherrie that it may be obtruded without much 
difeontent : it is a reafonable good bearer, a fairc great berrie,deepc coloured and a 
little pointed. 5 / * 
The Baccalaos or New-found -land Cherrie hath a fhining long leafe, rood like vnro 
a Peach leafe, the blolfomes come very many together as it were in an vmbell which 
is fuch a clufter as is neither like the Flanders clufter,nor the wilde clufter cherrie blofi. 
fome : it bringeth forth berries (landing in the (ame manner euerie one vpon his own 
footeftalke, being no bigger then the larged berrie of the red Curran tree or bulb of a 
pale or watcrifh red colour when it is ripe. 3 
The drangelong eluder Cherrie, or Pidas ThcophraPii Dalechampio isreckoned bv 
the Author of that great Herbail that goeth vnder his name, among the fortsof cher- 
ries ;and fo mud I yntill a fitter placebe found forit. Itgrowcthintimetobcaereat 
tree, with a fad coloured barke both on the bodie and branches, whereon doc *row 
many leaucs, fomevvhatbroade, (horrer, harder, andalittlemorecrumpled then any 
cherrie leafe : the blodomesare very fmall, and of a pale or whitilh colour duelling 
very fweetc and ftrong, or rather heady, like Orenge flowers, growing on fmall lonf 
branches, very hkethetoppeof flowers vpon theLaburnum orBeanetrefoilerrees • 
after which come fmall blacke berries, growing together all along the long dalke like 
vnto the wilde eluder or birds cherrie mentioned before, but not much biggerthen 
tares, with (mall dones within them, andlittle or no fudancc vpon them • the French 
call the tree becaufcthewoodthereof dinkerh, andmakeittobewonderfnll 
that the bioflomcs of the tree fliould befo fweetejand the wood fo (linking 
The Cullen Cherrie is a darie red cherrie like the Agriot, which they ofthofe parts 
ne EEf Cullcn ,f d Utrecht &c. vfe to put into their drinke, to giue it thedeeper colour 
^ j Hungarian Cherrie of Zwcrtsis like both in leafe and fruite vnto the 
Morello cherrie, but much greater and fairer, and a far better bearer : for from a fmall 
branch hath beene gathered a pound of cherries, and this is vfuall continually and nor 
accidentally, mod of them foure inches in compadeabout, and very many of them 
more ofafairedecpe red colour, and very fweete, excelling the Arch-Dukes cherrv 
or any other whatfoeuer. U Z> 
The Cameleon or drangc changeable Cherry deferuedly hath this name, although 
of mine ownc irapofmon, not only becaufe it beareth vfually both bloffomcs -greens 
and ripe fruit at one time thereupon, but that the fruit will be of many formes fome 
round, fomeas it : were (quare, and (ome bunched forth on onefideoranother,abiding 
condant in no faftuon, but for the mod part (hewing forth all thefediuerfiticseucric 
y earc growing vpon it : the fruit is of a very red colour, and good tade. 
Thegreat Rofe Cherry, or double blofTomdChcrry differeth not in any thin- from 
the Englifh Chcrne, but only in the bloflbmes, which are very thicke of white ? C au« 
as greatand double as the double white Crowfoote,bcfore rcmembred,and Wimes 
out of the middle of them will fpring another fmaller flower, but double alfo • thisfcl- 
Sfn “’a but J len i! C doth l fuppofc ir commtth from thofe bloffomes are 
thelead double, and is red, no bigger then our ordinary Englifh cherrie. 
The leffer Rofe or double bloffomd Cherrie beareth double flowers alfo but not fo 
. The other, whole branches, although fmall, grow morevprighr,hauinggreenerfiii- 
mng leauestthe fruit is little bigger then the former, red alfo when it is rip! with ai- 
de point at the end : both of thcmofafwectifh rellifli, but more fower P 
The great bearing Cherry of MaderMillen is a reafonable great red cherry bearing 
very plentifully, although it bee planted againd a North wall, yet it will beekte rw° 
but ofan indifferent fweet and good rellifli. y tcripc. 
The long fingerCherry «another fmall long red one,being long & round like a fin- 
ger, wherof it took the name: this is not the Vrinall cherry before, but differing from ir. 
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