CORNEL CHERRY-TREE. 
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CORNEL CHERRY-TREE. 
DURABILITY. 
The Cornel Cherry-tree grows no higher 
than eighteen or twenty feet. It is of very slow 
growth, but lives for ages. It blossoms in 
spring, but its bright scarlet berries are not ripe 
till winter. 
The Greeks consecrated this tree to Apollo, no 
doubt because that god presided over the produc¬ 
tions of the mind, which require much time and 
reflection :—a charming emblem, intimating to 
those who were desirous to cultivate letters, elo¬ 
quence, and poetry, that, before they could earn 
the laurel crown, they must long wear that of 
patience and meditation. 
After Romulus had marked out the bounds of 
his rising city, he threw his javelin on the Mount 
Palatine. The weapon, made of the wood of the 
Cornel Cherry-tree, stuck fast in the ground, 
took root, grew, threw out leaves and branches, 
