The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . RETROSPECTIVE. —CHERRIES, &c. BY W. R. PRINCE, FLUSHING, L. I. ETROSPECTIVE.—In your August number, page 386, thereare notes on the following subjects, to which I will re-spond. Tamarind.—It is not true, that this tree is growingand producing fruit in Virginia. It is so tender that itwould not survive there during even the mildest monthof one of their mildest winters. Some other tree musthave been thus misnamed, and described. Weigelia Amahilis.—The flowers do greatly assimilateto the rosea. The foliage is, however, larger and hand-
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . RETROSPECTIVE. —CHERRIES, &c. BY W. R. PRINCE, FLUSHING, L. I. ETROSPECTIVE.—In your August number, page 386, thereare notes on the following subjects, to which I will re-spond. Tamarind.—It is not true, that this tree is growingand producing fruit in Virginia. It is so tender that itwould not survive there during even the mildest monthof one of their mildest winters. Some other tree musthave been thus misnamed, and described. Weigelia Amahilis.—The flowers do greatly assimilateto the rosea. The foliage is, however, larger and hand-somer, and the growth much more vigorous than that species. Weigelia Splendenshas pale, yellow flowers, produced in long racemes. Walshs Cherry.—I tested this cherry, and the fruit is identical with the BlackBigarreau of Savoy, and in the whole catalogue of cherries there is not onevariety that bears any similitude to this, except the Tradescants Black, and thatis readily distinguishable by the growth of the tree, as well as the fruit. It wasimported by me about the year 1824, from the Nursery at Tonnelle in th
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