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duce feme fruit in a fmall compafs ; but thefe ate ex- 
periments unfit to be carried into general ufe, and 
only proper to fatisfy curiolity ; for is it not much 
better to allow the trees a greater lhare of room 
againft the walls, when one tree fo planted and pro- 
perly managed, will produce more fruit than twenty 
of thefe trees, or twice that number, when they are 
planted too ciofe, though they are grafted upon the 
Black Cherry or any other free flock. 
The Early or May Cherry is the firft ripe, fo one or 
two trees of this fort may be allowed a place in a gar- 
den, where there is room for variety. The next ripe 
is the May Duke, which is a larger fruit than the 
other, and is more valuable. After this comes the 
Archduke, which, if permitted to hang upon the 
tree till the fruit is quite ripe, is an excellent Cherry ; 
but few perfons have patience to let them hang their 
full time, fo rarely have them in perfection, for thefe 
fhould not be gathered before July-, and if they 
hang a fortnight longer they will be better. This 
is to be underftood of the fituation near London, 
where they ripen a fortnight earlier than in places 
forty miles diftant, unlefs they have a very warm 
fheltered fituation. When this fort is planted againft 
north walls, the fruit may be continued till the middle 
of Auguft ; but thefe muft be protected from the 
birds, otherwife they will deftroy them. 
The Hertfordfhire Cherry, which is a fort of Heart 
Cherry, but a firmer and better flavoured fruit, will 
notripen earlier than the end of July, or the begin- 
ning of Auguft, which makes it the more valuable 
for its coming when the other forts of Cherries are 
gone. This is now pretty common in the nurferies •, 
but as it is one of the belt kind of Cherries, it is well 
worthy of being propagated in the nurferies. 
The Morello Cherry, which is generally planted 
againft walls to a north afpeCt, and the fruit com- 
monly ufed for preferving •, yet where they are plant- 
ed to a better afpeCt, and fuffered to hang upon the 
trees until they are thoroughly ripe, is a very good 
fruit for the table ; therefore fome of the trees of this 
fort fhould have place where there is plenty of wall- 
ing, upon a fouth-weft wall, where they will ripen 
perfectly by the middle or end of Augiift, at which 
time they will be an acceptable fruit. 
The Carnation Cherry is alfo valuable for coming 
late in the feafon •, this has a very firm flefhy fruit, but 
is not the beft bearer. This fort will fome feafons 
ripen very well on elpaliers, and by this means the 
fruit may be continued longer in the feafon. 
The large Spanifh Cherry is nearly allied to the Duke 
Cherry, from which it feems to be only a variety ac- 
cidentally obtained ; this ripens loon after the com- 
mon Duke Cherry, and very often paffes for it. 
The yellow Spaniftt Cherry is of an oval fhape and 
of an amber colour ; this ripens late, and is a fweet 
Cherry, but not of a rich flavour ; and being but a 
middling bearer, is not often admitted into curi- 
ous gardens, unlefs where variety is chiefly con- 
fidered. 
The Corone, or Coroun Cherry, is fomewhat like the 
Black Heart, but a little rounder •, this is a very good 
bearer and an excellent fruit, fo fhould have a place 
in every good fruit-garden. This ripens the middle 
of July. 
The Lukeward ripens foon after the Corone Cherry ; 
this is a good bearer, and a very good fruit •, it is of 
a dark colour, not fo black as the Corone ; this will 
do well in ftandards. 
The Black Cherry is feldom grafted or budded, but 
is generally fown for flocks to graft the other kinds of 
Cherries upon ; but where perfons are curious to have 
the bell flavoured of this fort of fruit, they fhould be 
propagated by grafting from fuch trees as produce 
the beft fruit. This fort of Cherry is frequently 
planted in wilderneffes, where it will grow to a large 
fize, and, at the time of its flowering, will make a 
variety, and the fruit will be food for the birds. 
The double-flowering Cherry is alfo propagated for 
the beauty of the flowers, which are extremely fine, 
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the flowers being as double and large as a Cinnamon 
Rofe ; and thefe being produced in large bunches on 
every part of the tree, render it one of the mofl beau- 
tiful trees of the fpring. Some of the flowers which 
are lefs double, will often produce fome fruit, which 
the very double flowers will not but this defeCt is 
fufficiently recompenfed in the beauty of its flowers. 
This is propagated by budding or grafting on the 
Black or Wild Cherry flock, and the trees are very- 
proper to intermix with the fecond growth of flower- 
ing trees. 
CERASUS RACEMOSA. See Padus. 
CERA TONI A. Lin. Gen. Plant. 983. Siliqua. 
Tourn. Inft. R. H. 578. tab. 344. The Carob, or St. 
John’s Bread, in French Carouge . 
The Characters are, 
It is male and female in diftinB trees. The male flowers 
have large empalements , divided into five parts •, they have 
no petals , but have five long fiamina , terminated by large 
fummits. The female flowers have empalements of one 
leaf \ divided by five tubercles ; they have no petals , but 
a flefhy gerraen fituated within the receptacle , fupporting 
a /lender ftyle , crowned by a jligma in form of a head. 
The germen afterward becomes a long y flefhy , compr effect' 
pod , divided by tranfverfe partitions , each having one 
large , roundifh , compreffed feed. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the third feCtion of 
Linnteus’s twenty-third clafs, intitled Polygamia Tri- 
oecia. The plants of this clafs have male, female, 
and hermaphrodite flowers on diftinCt plants. 
We have but one Species of this genus, viz. 
Ceratonia [Siliqua/ H. L. The Carob-tree, or St. 
John’s Bread. Siliqua edulis of Cafpar Bauhin, and 
the Caroba of Dale. 
This tree is very common in Spain, and in fome parts 
of Italy, as alfo in the Levant, where it grows in the 
hedges, and produces a great quantity of long, flat, 
brown-coloured pods, which are thick, mealiy, and 
of a fweetifh tafte. Thefe pods are many times eaten, 
by the poorer fort of inhabitants when they have a 
fcarcity of other food, but they are apt to loofen the 
belly, and caufe gripings of the bowels. The pods 
are directed by the College of Phyficians to enter fome 
medicinal preparations, for which purpofe they are 
often brought from abroad. 
In England the tree is preferved by fuch as delight 
in exotic plants, as a curioflty the leaves always 
continue green, and being different in fhape from 
moft other plants, afford an agreeable variety when 
intermixed with Oranges, Myrtles, &c. in the green- 
houfe. 
Thefe plants are propagated from feeds, which, when 
brought over freflh in the pods, will grow very well, if 
they are fown in the fpring upon a moderate hot-bed 5 
and when the plants are come up they fhould be care- 
fully tranlplanted each into a feparate fmall pot filled 
with light rich earth, and plunged into another mo- 
derate hot-bed, obferving to water and ftiade them 
until they have taken root •, after which you mull let 
them have air, in proportion to the heat of the wea- 
ther. In June you muft inure them to the open air 
by degrees •, and in July they fhould be removed out 
of the hot-bed, and placed in a warm fituation, where 
they may remain until the beginning of October, 
when they fhould be removed into the green-houfe, 
placing them where they may have free air in mild wea- 
ther ; for they are pretty hardy, and require only to 
be fheltered from hard frofls. When the plants have 
remained in the pots three or four years, and have 
gotten ftrength, fome of them may be turned out of 
the pots in the fpring, and planted into the full ground, 
in a warm fituation, near a fouth wall, where they 
will endure the cold of our ordinary winters very well, 
but muft have fome fhelter in very hard weather. 
I have not as yet feen any of thefe trees produce 
flowers, though from fome which have been planted 
fome time againft walls, it is probable there may 
be flowers and fruit in a few years ; though it can-* 
not be expedited that the fruit will ever ripen in this 
country, 
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