Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp / a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues

by John Parkinson

The Morocco Cherrie hath a large white blossome, and an indifferent big berrie, long and round, with a long stalke of a darke reddish purple colour, a little tending to a blew when it is full ripe, of a firme substance: the iuice is of a blackish red, discolouring the hands or lips, and of a pleasant taste: Some doe thinke that this and the Morello be both one.

The Naples Cherrie is also thought to bee all one with the Morello or Morocco.

The white Spanish Cherrie is an indifferent good bearer, the leafe and blossome somewhat large, and like the Luke Wardes cherrie: the cherries are reasonable faire berries, with long stalkes and great stones, white on the outside, with some rednesse, on the one side of a firme substance, and reasonable sweet, but with a little aciditie, and is one of the late ripe ones: But there is another late ripe white Cherry, which some call the Gascoigne, before remembred.

The Flanders cluster Cherrie is of two sorts, one greater then another: the greater kinde hath an indifferent large leafe; the blossomes haue many threds within them, shewing as it were many parts, which after turne into clusters of berries, foure, fiue or sixe together, and but with one stalke vnder them, as if they grew one out of another, and sometimes they will beare but two or three, and most of them but one cherry on a stalke, which are red when they are ripe, very tender, and waterish sweete in eating.

The lesser is in all things like the greater, but smaller, which maketh the difference.

The wilde cluster or birds cluster Cherry beareth many blossomes set all along the stalkes, and cherries after them in the same maner, like a long thinne bunch of grapes, and therefore called of some the Grape cherry: there are of them both red and blacke.

1	Cerasus præcox. The May Cherry.
2	Cerasus Batauica. The Flanders Cherry.
3	Cerasus Hispanica siue alba. The white Cherry.
4	Cerasus platophyllos. The great leafed Cherry.
5	Cerasus Luca Wardi. Luke Wards Cherry.
6	Cerasus Neapolitana. The Naples Cherry.
7	Cerasus Cordata. The Heart Cherry.
8	Cerasus maculata. The bignarre or spotted Cherry.
9	Cerasus auium racemosa. The wilde cluster Cherry.
10	Cerasus Corymbisera. The Flanders cluster Cherry.
11	Cerasus Archiducis. The Archdukes Cherry.
12	Chamacerasus. The dwarfe Cherry.