. The fruits and fruit trees of America : or, The culture, propagation and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally, with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . Fruit-culture; Fruit. THK CHEERS. 255 'gardens. market fruit, its size and produfetire habit of tree place it among the very best. Fruit large, heart-shape, often obtuse, sides compressed, sur face uneven, colour dark purplish blacky glossy. Flesh dark purple, half tender,' almost firm, juicy, riohj sweet, fine fiavour Season, from 20th June to 1st July
. The fruits and fruit trees of America : or, The culture, propagation and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally, with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . Fruit-culture; Fruit. THK CHEERS. 255 'gardens. market fruit, its size and produfetire habit of tree place it among the very best. Fruit large, heart-shape, often obtuse, sides compressed, sur face uneven, colour dark purplish blacky glossy. Flesh dark purple, half tender,' almost firm, juicy, riohj sweet, fine fiavour Season, from 20th June to 1st July. Black Mazzard. Thomp. Lind. , Mazzard, Common English, Wild Englisii Gheny, Black Honey, Bristol Cherry. Cerasus a^um. Dec. Wild Black Fruited, 1 Small wad Black, I o/i Whixley Black,- [ ' Merisier i petit fruit. 0. Duh. Merigier a petit fruit noir. - â â : This \% ance and some parts of England; and it has now become naturalized, and grows~spontaneously throughout most poi-tions of the settled states. It is .the_oTiginal species from which near'y all the fine Heart and other sweet cher^es hav* sprung. It is small, and of litt*** value for eating, retaining, unless very »ipe, a certain bitterness; but it ripens a?vi hangs on the tree until the middle or ]«st of Jnly, so that it then be- comes somewhat acceptable. FVuit small, roundish or oval heart- shaped, flattened a httle on both sides. Stalk long and very slender, inserted-in a small depression. Skin thin, and when- fully ripe, jet black. Flesh soft and melt- mg, purple, with an abundant, somewhat bitter juice. ^ The White Mazzabd, of Mr. Manning,-, is a seedling raised by that, pomolo^st, which difiers little except in its colour. Black Eagle. Thomp. Lind. A very excellent English variety, raised by the daughter of Mr. Knight, at Downton Castle, in 1806, from the seed of the Bigarreau fertilized by the May- duke. It ripens at the beginning of July or a few days latei than the Black Tartarian,. Slack Pleas
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