August 7. 
COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COM PAN TON. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
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D 
M 
D 
W 
AUGUST 7—13, 1855. 
* 7 
To 
Phalacrus cortiealis. 
8 
W 
Phalacrus millefolii. 
9 
Th 
Phalacrus earicis. 
10 
F 
Phalacrus teneus. 
11 
S 
Phalacrus coruscus. 
12 
Son 
10 Sunday after Trinity. 
13 
M 
Phalacrus geminus. 
.Rarometer. 
30.059—30.037 
80.057— 29.971 
29 . 911 — 29.882 
29.838 — 29.791 
29 . 947 — 29.931 
29 . 924 — 29.897 
29 . 902 — 29.731 
5ar London in 
Thermo. Wind. 
1853. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R. & S. 
. Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
hf. Sun. 
Day of 
Year. 
68—44 N. 
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34 a 4 
37 a 7 
11 45 
24 
5 
33 
21Q 
74—48 S.W. 
— 
35 
36 
morn. 
25 
5 
26 
220 
73—48 S.W. 
— 
37 
34 
0 30 
26 
5 
IS 
991 
77—48 N.W. 
— 
38 
32 
1 28 
27 
5 
10 
222 
/5—58 . W. 
— 
40 
30 
2 33 
28 
5 
] 
223 
74—48 S.W. 
43 
28 
sets. 
© 
4 
52 
224 
86—54 S. 
01 
43 
26 
8a 12 
1 
4 
43 
225 
Meteorology 
peratures of 
on the 13th 
^logy OP THE Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-eight years 
f these days are 74.5°, and 51.1°, respectively. The greatest heat, 93°, occurred on the loth 
, m 2639* During the period 117 days were fine, and on 79 rain fell.y 
the average highest and lowest tem- 
in 1842; and the lowest cold, 32°, 
THE FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES OF GREAT 
BRITAIN. 
NO. IT. 
HEINE HORTENSE CHERRY. 
Identification. — Bon Jard. 1843. p. 480. Dubreuil 
Coura. 644. Hort. Soc. Cat. Supp. 10. 
Synonymies. —Reiue Hortense Larose, Amu Soc. Hort. 
Par. 1838. Cerise Monstrueuse de Bavay, Buvay Cat. 
1852. p. 6.; Belle de Bavay; Belle de Laeken; Hybrid 
de Laeken; Belle Supreme ; Belle de Prapean ; Belle 
de petit Brie; Guigne de petit Brie; Cerise d’Aremberg ; 
Monstrueuse de Jodoigne ; Cerise Morestein; Cerise 
Louis Dix-huit; Seize a la livre ; Grosse de Wagnelee; 
Rouvroy; Belle Audigeoise; Fisbach; De Meruer; 
Lemercier. 
Figures. —Album de Pomologie, as Grosse de Wagnelee, 
Vol. iii. 61. 
Adthough it is comparatively but a few years since 
this Cherry was first obtained from seed, it has already 
acquired as many synonymes as if it had been a 
hundred years in existence. There is no better criterion 
of the popularity or excellenco of a variety of fruit, 
than the number of synonymes it possesses, as it rarely 
happens that one which is considered unworthy of cul¬ 
tivation attracts sufficient attention to obtain for it any 
remarkable distinction. 
The fruit of this variety is very large, being upwards 
of an inch long, and an inch wide. It is somewhat 
oblong in shape, very much compressed on both sides, 
which gives it the appearance as if it were flattened, 
and, generally, it is narrower towards the stalk than the 
apex; it has on one side a very faint suture, which is 
most distinctly marked at the stalk and the apex, where 
it terminates in a dark brown point, which is not at 
all indented. Skin very thin and transparent, at first 
of a pale flesh colour, changing to a bright cornelian- 
red, and when fully ripe assuming a dark brilliant red 
colour. Hlie stalk is very slender, and entirely green, 
from an-inch-and-three-quarters to two inches long, 
and rather deeply inserted in an oval cavity. The 
flesh is yellow, netted, very tender and very juicy, 
with a sweet and refreshing acidulous flavour. The 
juice is quite pale; the stone oblong, and small for the 
size of the fruit. 
It ripens about a fortnight after the Mayduke. The 
tree, even in its young state, lias a loose and spreading 
habit of growth, and when aged is almost quite pen¬ 
dulous, very full of shoots and foliage, and possesses 
all the appearance of the variety known as the Tous- 
saint. A tree, which we lately saw in the nursery of 
Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, and which has now 
acquired a mature growth, convinces us that this is a 
hybrid between one of the Duke family and the Tons 
saint, from the habit it has of producing racemes of 
bloom at the extremities of the young wood in the 
autumn, as the latter variety does. It has a very 
beautiful outline, and would form a very desirable 
object on a lawn, or in a pleasure-ground, as an orna¬ 
mental tree. 
There seems a dispute between the French and the 
Belgians as to which of these nations has the honour 
of giving birth to this beautiful fruit. The French story 
is, that M. Larose, a nurseryman at Neuilly, raised a 
Cherry from the stone of the English variety, known as 
the Carnation, hut which, in regard of the habit of the 
tree, and the form of the fruit, was quite distinct from 
it; this he called Cerise Larose. In 1832, he planted 
stones of this new Cherry which he had raised, and in 
1888 one of the offspring produced bloom, which had 
the fragrance of the Hawthorn, mid fruit of such a 
size as to astonish the most enthusiastic pomologists; 
and this was called by M. Poiteau, Cerise de la Heine 
Hortense Larose, in honour of “ the beautiful Hortense,” 
mother of the present Emperor Napoleon. 
The Belgian account is that of M. Bavay, a nursery¬ 
man of Yilvorde, near Brussels, who says that this 
No. CCCLVIII. Vol. XIV. 
