Late Duke, do. Cluster, planted more for ornament, or curiosity than any other purpose. Double Blossoms, ripe in July. Honey Cherry, do. small sweet cherry. Kentish cherry, ripe in July. Mazarine, do. Morello, do. and August; a red, acid cherry, the best for preserving, and for making cherry-brandy. Early Richmond Cherry. This fruit originated near Richmond in Virginia, and is the earliest cherry in America, and valuable on that account; it is the size of a May Duke, and resembles it in form. Red Bigereau, a very fine cherry, ripe in July, of a heart shape. White Bigereau, ripe in July and August: remarkably firm, heart shaped. Large Double Flowering Cherry. This tree produces no fruit but makes a handsome appearance in the spring, when it is covered with clusters of double flowers as large as the cinnamon rose; it differs from the common double flowering cherry which never forms a large tree, and has small pointed leaves. The three last were imported from Bordeaux in 1798. Small Morello Cherry, called also Salem Cherry, because it came originally from Salem County, N. J., is cultivated by Mr. Cooper of that state, who values it highly. The fruit has a lively acid taste. The tree produces abundantly, and is the least subject to worms of any cherry trees. Mr. C. says that the Bleeding Heart suits a sandy soil, but that the May-duke will not flourish in it." [30] Willich _Domestic Encyclopaedia_ 105. 1804. CHERRIES IN THE SOUTH It would be interesting but hardly of sufficient profit to trace further the history of cultivated cherries in the states of the Atlantic seaboard. References to the cherry abound in the colonial records of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware but they bring out no facts differing materially from those abstracted from the records of the northern colonies. The Quakers and the Swedes in the states watered by the Delaware and the English in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, all early grew cherries as one of the easiest fruits to propagate and cultivate. Space can be spared for but two brief quotations to show the condition of cherry culture in the South in Colonial days. The first is from Bruce's Economic History of Virginia.[31]