Cherry
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Cherry. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
a fruit tree belonging, with the plum, to the rose family. Our garden cherries are from European stock. Cherries are cultivated as far north as the southern part of Norway. In Germany and other continental countries cherry trees line the roadsides. The fruit is sold to a contractor. The pickers use long stepladders in their work; they refer tourists to the foreman who very politely sells them at a moderate price as many large, black, meaty cherries as they want to pay for. We have several American wild cherries. The black cherry is a large tree in many localities. The fruit is bitter. The wood is used for expensive furniture. The wood of the red cherry also is desirable, but the tree is too small for lumber. A dwarf sand cherry sometimes fruits when less than a foot high. The choke cherry, with cylindrical clusters, comes in the fall after birds have taken the red cherries, and is welcome in spite of its puckering qualities. Several proverbial expressions show that cherries have had a place in homely life for centuries. "As like as two cherries," is expressive of similarity. "Making two bites of a cherry," is a sermon on unnecessary effort. "As red as a cherry," and "cherry red," indicate the favorite kind of cherry. Cerise, the name of an exquisite color, is French for cherry. Sweet cherries and sour cherries are cultivated thoughout the apple states as dooryard and orchard fruits. In California cherries are subordinated to other fruits, yet 300 cars of fresh cherries and 170,000 cases of canned cherries are shipped during the season.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a fruit-tree of the prune or plum tribe, very ornamental and therefore much cultivated in shrubcountries of the Northern Hemisphere, beries. It is a native of most temperate and in Great Britain is quite common in the wild state, besides being cultivated for its fruit. The cultivated varieties belong to two species, Cerasus avium and Cerasus vulgāris, the genus Cerasus being considered a sub-genus of Prunus. They are numerous , as the red or garden cherry, the red heart, the white heart, the black cherry, etc. The fruit of the wild cherry, or gean , is often as well flavored, if not quite so large, as that of the cultivated varieties. It is said that this fruit was brought from Cerasus, in Pontus, to Italy, by Lucullus, about 70 B. C., and introduced into England by the Romans. The cherry is used in making the liqueurs Kirschwasser and Maraschino. The wood of the cherry-tree is hard and tough, and is very serviceable to turners and cabinetmakers. An ornamental but not edible species is the bird-cherry. The American wild cherry (Cerasus virginiana) is a fine large tree, the timber of which is much used by cabinet-makers and others, though the fruit is rather astringent.