. The fruit grower's handbook [microform] : a concise manual of directions for the selection and culture of the best hardy fruits in the garden or orchard. Fruit-culture. 36 THE CnERRY. THE CHERRY. The Cherry with its welcome cotemporary, the Strawberry^ ri- pens in the earliest warm relaxing days of summer, when its /rate- xniT^i fi"" ^'-'^rious flavor is highly refreshing and acceptable. Although the season of most of the sorts, individually, is short, no frfeas'tPd'h '.1^''"''" ^^'^''^' ^^^ '^' ^^^^' ^' ^'^11 ^« '^^ P^l^te, IS leasted by the successive appearance of new
. The fruit grower's handbook [microform] : a concise manual of directions for the selection and culture of the best hardy fruits in the garden or orchard. Fruit-culture. 36 THE CnERRY. THE CHERRY. The Cherry with its welcome cotemporary, the Strawberry^ ri- pens in the earliest warm relaxing days of summer, when its /rate- xniT^i fi"" ^'-'^rious flavor is highly refreshing and acceptable. Although the season of most of the sorts, individually, is short, no frfeas'tPd'h '.1^''"''" ^^'^''^' ^^^ '^' ^^^^' ^' ^'^11 ^« '^^ P^l^te, IS leasted by the successive appearance of new beauties and fresh flavors, from May to September. Several quite distinct varieties are described by early Roman writers before Christ; but many of the sorts most valued now, have been lately originated by the skill and exertion of American Cul- turists, among whom Professor Kirtland of Cleveland, has been eminently successful. The larger erect growing, leafy sorts make fine shade trees, and when planted m avenues or groves, they are as ornamental as use- ^^ \ i ^^'^ ^^w^ Tartarian, Burr's Seedling, Napoleon, Large double flowering Weeping, &c. are among the most admired of all ornamental, deciduous, hardy trees. In Germany the roadsides are lined from one city to another, with continuous rows of cherry trees, forming avenues 50 miles long. Part of the trees are marked with a straw band or otherwise, for the use of the owner, and this mark is strictly respected. (53) - There are two classes of cultivated cherries, very obviously dis- tinct. The first comprises the Hearts and Bigarreuus—lofty lux- .T''''!#'"'''^''''f' Y'^^' ^''''"^^' ^^^'^^«Pi"g' lushy foliage, and sweet fruit- the other includes the Dukes and Morellos-slow growers, with mostly low, spreading, slender branches; smaller, darker and thicker leaves; and round, usually acid fruit. The Bigarros are distinguished from the Heart Cherries by their firm flesh, and usu- ally less erect branches. The
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