suture.

22. FLORENCE. Hort. Trans. Vol. ii. p. 229. t. 14. Fruit large, heart-shaped, flat at the base, and obtuse at the apex, compressed on one side, with a shallow Stalk long, slender, seated in a deep, cupshaped cavity. Skin pale amber, very much marbled with pale red, and of a very bright lively red where exposed to the sun. Flesh white, firm, but not hard. Juice plentiful, rich and sweet.

Ripe end of July or beginning of August.

This very fine cherry was imported from Florence some years ago by the late Mr. Houblon, of Hallingbury Place, in Essex. The original plant is now dead.

It succeeds best trained against an east, or south-east wall.

23. HARRISON'S HEART. Forsyth, Ed. 7. No. 9. Fruit large, heart-shaped, of a pale yellowish or amber colour, slightly tinged with red on the sunny side. Flesh tender, with a rich high-flavoured juice.

Ripe the end of July and beginning of August.

Mr. Forsyth says this Cherry was introduced from the East Indies (?) by Governor Harrison, who went out as Governor of Fort Saint George, in December, 1710, and returned in 1719. It was first cultivated at his seat at Balls, in Herefordshire. Some of the trees which he presented to George I. were in a flourishing state, in Kensington Gardens, in 1800. This, like the Bigarreau, ought to be trained against an east or south-east wall.

24. KNIGHT'S EARLY BLACK. Hort. Trans. Vol. iii. p. 211. Vol. iv. p. 510. Pom. Mag. 93.

Fruit large, blunt, heart-shaped, with an uneven surface like that of the Black Tartarian. Stalk two inches long, deeply inserted in a hollow, cup-shaped cavity. Skin of a dark dull red, when fully ripe almost black. Flesh firm, juicy, very deep purple, rich and high flavoured.

Ripe a week or ten days earlier than the May Duke. On a south aspect, it will be ripe by the middle of June.

This very valuable and early cherry was raised by Mr. Knight, about 1810, from a seed of the Bigarreau, which had been impregnated by the May Duke. It is sufficiently hardy to bear on an open standard; but it would be more desirable to train it against a south or south-east wall, as its fruit would then be a great acquisition to the dessert, along with our early scarlet strawberries.

25. LUKEWARD. Miller, No. 11. Hitt, p. 299.; Switzer, 140.

Fruit heart-shaped, somewhat rounder, and not quite so large as a Black Heart; of a dark brown, or nearly black colour, and possessing a most excellent juice.

Ripe the beginning of August.

This is an old inhabitant of our orchards, although but little known, or cultivated, at present.

Parkinson, in 1629, calls it Luke Wards: Raye in 1688, Luke Ward's, and Rea, in 1702, appears to be the first who has given it the name of Lukeward. It is highly spoken of by the old gardeners, and therefore ought to be brought into notice and cultivated.

26. SMALL BLACK.

Black Mazzard. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 4.

Common Black of Buckinghamshire. Ib. No. 5.
Merry Cherry of Cheshire. Ib. No. 2.

Small Wild Black. Ib. No. 7.

Black Polstead, in some places.

Merisier à petit fruit. Duhamel, Vol. i. p. 156. Fruit small, heart-shaped, flattened a little on both sides, and without suture. Stalk one inch and three quarters long, very slender, inserted in a small round cavity; at its apex it has a small, round, deepish dimple. Skin thin, of a jet black colour. Flesh succulent, very deep

purple. Juice purple, sweet, accompanied with a slight bitter but agreeable taste.

Ripe the beginning and middle of August.

This Cherry grows wild, and is cultivated also, in abundance, in several parts of England, particularly in the Chiltern part of Buckinghamshire; in Cheshire, and about Polstead in Suffolk, where the fruit is called Merries, from the French Merise. In the season they are to be found in almost every principal market town in England, where they always find a ready sale. It is the principal fruit employed for the making of Cherry brandy, and it is the only sort which ought to be used by nurserymen for their stocks, on which to bud and graft the better kinds.

27. TOBACCO LEAVED.

Bigarreautier à feuilles de Tabac. Bon. Jard. 1827.

p. 296.

Cerisier de 4 à la livre.

Four to the pound.

Ib. 1825. p. 239.

Of some Nurseries.

Quatre à la livre. Hort. Trans. Vol. iv. p. 511. Fruit small, heart shaped, of a pale transparent yellow colour, with a faint stain of red on the exposed side. Flesh of firm consistence, sweet and pleasant, but without any particular richness. Stalk long and the stone large, in proportion to the size of the fruit.

Ripe in August.

The young branches, in the Nursery, are very strong, and crooked; and the leaves of the very largest size.

How this Cherry should have obtained its name of four to the pound, I am at a loss to conceive: its fruit is not half the size of our Kentish Cherry, and not of one fiftieth part of its value for any purpose whatever. Nurserymen will do well to get rid of it altogether.

28. WHITE HEART. Langley. t. 18. f. 4. Guignier à gros fruit blanc. Duhamel, t. 1. f.3.

Fruit growing in pairs or threes, middle-sized, heart-shaped, of a dull whitish yellow colour, tinged and mottled with dull muddy red on the side next the sun. Stalk two inches long, very slender, inserted in a hollow round basin. Flesh melting, juicy, of a rich and pleasant flavour.

Ripe the end of July and beginning of August.

The branches of this sort are slender, diverging, with a reddish-brown epidermis.

A Selection of Cherries for a small Garden in the Southern and Midland Counties of England.

Northern Counties of England, and Southern of Scotland.

Cherries in the Highlands of Scotland must be trained against walls, and have the best aspect.

Propagation.

Cherries are propagated by budding and grafting upon the small Black Cherry stock. Those intended for standards are always worked standard high.

In the nursery it ought not to be attempted to work dwarfs among standards, except on those stocks which have not grown up sufficiently high for the purpose of standards, as they never make good plants when overgrown by the upper crop. Dwarfs are at all times the best when grown by themselves; and if good bedded stocks have been quartered out, they will generally be fit to graft when they have been planted a year.

As I have observed before, when speaking of apples, budding is not to be recommended for dwarfs, as they never make such good plants as those which have been grafted.

In order, therefore, to preserve a uniformity in a quarter of cherries, and to grow them with the least possible waste, it is necessary the stocks should be assorted previously to their being planted out, selecting the handsomest and best, and as nearly of a size as possible for standards; the smaller and less handsome ones may follow in the quarter to be employed for dwarfs. By pursuing this method the crop of both standards and dwarfs will be regular, and much better than when the weak plants have to contend with the strong, and the least waste will in all cases be occasioned.

Pruning and Training.

Standard cherries for the orchard require the same management, generally, as standard apples, and the same method may be pursued as directed under that head;