Archive image from page 138 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode01john Year: 1847 Knight's Early Black. Pom. Mag.: Thorn. (Fig. 28.) 'This is, as its name imports, one of Mr. Knight's seedlings, raised in England, about 1810. It is not, externally, unlike the Black Tartarian, of which such exagge- rated descriptions have been given, ripens earlier than it—at Philadelphia, about the 1st of June. The fruit is over medium size, heart shaped. Skin deep purple, when fully ripe quite black. Flesh delicate, juicy, and well flavoured. Taken altogeth

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Archive image from page 138 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode01john Year: 1847 Knight's Early Black. Pom. Mag.: Thorn. (Fig. 28.) 'This is, as its name imports, one of Mr. Knight's seedlings, raised in England, about 1810. It is not, externally, unlike the Black Tartarian, of which such exagge- rated descriptions have been given, ripens earlier than it—at Philadelphia, about the 1st of June. The fruit is over medium size, heart shaped. Skin deep purple, when fully ripe quite black. Flesh delicate, juicy, and well flavoured. Taken altogether it may be pronounced a cherry of the first order.'—Rural Reg. Elton. Pom. Mag.: Thomp.— (Fig. 29.) 'The Elton is an English cherry, raised in 1806. It is truly ex- cellent, and must always remain a favourite, even though newer varieties contest the claim to our esteem. It is Fig. 30.—(P. 144.)

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