Note E148 — 34.

"Cheries." Austen, in his Treatise on Fruit Trees, Oxford, 1657, p. 56, enumerates the following kinds of cherries: "The Flanders Cherry, most generally planted, is a great bearing fruit. The May Cherries are tender, and the trees must be set in a warm place. The Black-hart Cherry, a very speciall fruit, and a great bearing fruit, and doubtlesse exceeding proper to presse for wine either to drink of itselfe, or to mix the juyce with Cider to give it a colour as Clarret-wine, it being of a deepe red, and a small quantity of it will colour a gallon of Cider or White wine. There is a Cherry we call the great bearing Cherry of M. Milleu. It may very well be called the great bearer, for the trees seldome fayle of great store of fruits, although in a cold and sharp spring."