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, hut lives for ages. It blossoms in 
spring, hut its bright scarlet berries are not 
ripe till winter. 
The Greeks consecrated this tree to Apollo, 
no doubt because that god presided over the 
productions of the mind, which require much 
time and reflection—a charming emblem, in¬ 
timating to those who were desirous to culti¬ 
vate letters, eloquence, and poetry, that, before 
they can 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 
