We present this month a plate of eight well-proved excellent varieties of Cherries. We cannot say that we are partial to this mode of illustration - one or two varieties, with foliage, would make a much finer picture; hut hy giving portraits of eight varieties at once, we furnish a greater amount of information; and this, with us, is the main point. To a large number of the readers of the Horticulturist, these varieties are well known, while on the other hand, many who have more recently engaged in fruit culture, know but little about them. At any rate, we feel that we cannot do wrong in making still more widely and favorably known varieties of such sterling merit.

No. 1. Elton

This is one of Knight's English varieties, said to have been a cross between the White Heart and Yellow Spanish. Fruit large, heart-shaped, long, or pointed pale yellowish-white, nearly covered with light red. Flesh half tender, juicy, and delicious Tree a strong grower, spreading, and somewhat irregular, with large leaves, distinguished by reddish petioles, or leaf-stalks. It may be placed among the early varieties.

No. 2. Yellow Spanish, Called, Also, Bigarreau And Grafflon

A very old variety, supposed to be of Turkish origin, of unsurpassed excellence, succeeding well in many parts of the country. Fruit large, obtuse heart-shaped, yellow, or cream color, with a bright red cheek. Flesh firm, juicy, and excellent Tree vigorous, and an abundant bearer, generally) forming a handsome, round, regular head. Mid-season.

No. 8. Knight's Early Black

One of Knight's English varieties, said to be a cross between the May Duke and Yellow Spanish. Fruit medium to large size, obtuse heart-shaped, with a stout, short stalk. Skin quite black when ripe. Flesh tender, juioy and rich. Tree of medium size, spreading, forms a handsome, regular, round head. Early.

No. 4. Napoleon Bigarreau

A very large and beautiful French, or Dutch variety, resembling the Yellow Spanish, but larger and more oblong; not first quality, except when ri pened in fine, dry weather. Tree vigorous, erect, and regular in growth, with large, heavy leaves, and a prodigious bearer, will produce almost twice as many as the Yellow Spanish. Rather late, succeeding the Black Tartarian.

No. 5. Heine Hortense

A large and beautiful French variety, belonging to the Duke class; somewhat oblong, bright red, tender, slightly acid, but rich and delicious. Tree an erect, regular and handsome grower, makes a beautiful pyramid or small standard on the Mahaleb stock for gardens. Ripens late, and hangs long on the tree. A moderate bearer when young, increasing in fruitfulness with age.

No. 6. Burr's Seedling

Originated by Mr. Zeka BuRR, of Perinton, near Rochester, some juicy and sweet. Tree an erect, rapid, and handsome grower, and produces abundant crops of fruit, which are borne in large clusters, and hang long on the tree. Bather late. Season at Rochester about middle to end of July.

No. 8. Black Eagle

Out of Knight's English varieties, like the Knight's Early Black, a cross between the Yellow Spanish and May Duke. In form and color it resembles the Knight's English Black, but has a longer and more slender stalk. Fruit large, high flavored) and excellent One of the best, if not the best black among the old well proved varieties in cultivation. Tree vigorous and hardy, forming a handsome, regular, round head.

Our Frontispiece #1

"We present our readers, this month, with a perspective view and ground plan of a barn and stable designed for the villa residence of a gentleman on the Hudson, whose whole establishment will be remarkable for the completeness, convenience, and good effect of the various buildings, joined to much natural beauty of features of the locality in which they are placed.

This stable, is intended to produce a picturesque effect externally, and to contain internally all the convenience demanded in a building of this class. The central portion contains the carriage-house, with space for four vehicles, and a harness-room at the end of it. On one side of this is the stable - the stalls 5 1/2 feet wide, with racks supplied with hay through wells, over each rack, in the floor of the hayloft above. A flight of stairs leads from the end of the stable to the hay-loft above, and is placed here, (and not in the carriage-house as we frequently see it,) in order to prevent any dust from the hay-loft from finding its way into the carriage-house. On the other side of the car-raige-house are a tool-house and work-shop.

All the doors in this stable slide upon iron rollers running upon a piece of plain bar iron above the door. These iron rollers are attached firmly to the door by iron straps, and the door, being thus suspended, not only runs much more easily and freely than if the track were at the bottom, as is usually the case, but the track is not liable to get clogged by dust or other matters falling upon the floor. Besides this, a sliding door in a stable, when opened, gives the largest possible egress in a given space, and can never stand in the way to the injury of horses or carriages passing in or out on either side.

The high-roof of this building gives a good deal of room in the hay loft, and the ventilation on the top keeps this space cool and airy at all seasons. The whole is built of wood, the verti-tical boarding battened in the ordinary manner.