. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. 58 Nat. Orel. Rosacea. Cerasus Juss. Linn. St/st. IcosandriaMonogynia. Cerasus Si/hestris, CHERRY TREE, OR GEAN. Cerasus Sylvestris. Ray, Hist. 1539. Loudons Arb. Brit, part in. ch. xlii. p. avium. Dons Mill. ii. p. 505. Prunus avium. Linn. sp. pi. 680. Whatever difference of opinion may exist among bo-tanists and horticulturists as to the origin of the culti- WILD CHERRY TREE, OR GEAN. 59 vated Cherry, whether it was in reality brought from Asiainto Italy by Lucullus, nearly two thousand years ago,
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. 58 Nat. Orel. Rosacea. Cerasus Juss. Linn. St/st. IcosandriaMonogynia. Cerasus Si/hestris, CHERRY TREE, OR GEAN. Cerasus Sylvestris. Ray, Hist. 1539. Loudons Arb. Brit, part in. ch. xlii. p. avium. Dons Mill. ii. p. 505. Prunus avium. Linn. sp. pi. 680. Whatever difference of opinion may exist among bo-tanists and horticulturists as to the origin of the culti- WILD CHERRY TREE, OR GEAN. 59 vated Cherry, whether it was in reality brought from Asiainto Italy by Lucullus, nearly two thousand years ago, asPliny relates, or originated, as others suppose, in someother part of Europe from the Wild Cherry, we shall notstop to discuss, but proceed at once to the considerationof that species, which, under the names Primus aviumof Linn., and Cerasus sylvestris, Ray, &c, and known tous by the various local names of the Wild Black Cherry,the Gean, Merries, Merry-tree, is allowed to be indi-genous in many parts of continental Europe, and consi-dered also by many to be so in En
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