AMYGDALACE^ V. Cerasus. 



509 



Morello 



Moreller 



15 Morello, small Morello of some, Dutch Morello^ large 

 Morello, black Morello^ late Morello, Ronald's large Morello, 

 du nordy griotte ordinaire du nord. Fruit dark red, round, heart- 

 shaped, large. Flesh tender. A first-rate kitchen fruit, ripen- 

 ing in July and August. For north walls and for preserving 

 the Morello k well known to be most valuable. 



16 Wild Morello. 



Var. K, cordigera (Ser. in D. C. prod. 2. p. 537.) fruit ovate- 

 globose ; flesh red. To this variety belong the following sorts 



of cherry : 



1 Cerise guigne, Duham. arb. fr. 1. p. 195. t. 16. f. 1. 



stituted for those of the wild sort, as being more easily procured. 

 New varieties are produced by propagating from seed. 



The cherry, Mr. T. A. Knight observes, (Hort. trans. 2. p. 

 38.) '* sports more extensively in variety when propagated froni 

 seeds, than any otlier fruit which I have hitherto subjected 

 to experiments ; and this species is therefore probably capable 

 of acquiring a higher state of perfection than it has ever yet 

 attained. New varieties are also much wanted ; for the trees of 

 the best old kinds are every where in a state of decay in the 

 cherry orchards ; and I am quite confident that neither healthy 

 nor productive trees will ever be obtained from grafts of old 

 and expended varieties of this or any other species of fruit tree." 



Cherry stones, whether for stocks or new varieties, are sown 



i Grlotle guigne, cerise d'An^leterre, Lois, in Duham. ed. '" I'S^'* "^"^^^ ^^'^^ '" ^"^V,"""' °':, ^'^ Preserved m sand till 



nov. 5. p. 28. no. 32. t. 14. f. B. 



8 Griotle ou cerise cceur, Le Berr. trait, jard. 1. p. 257. ex 

 Lois. 1. c. 



spring and then sown. They will come up the same season, 

 and should not be removed till the second autumn after sowing. 

 They may then be planted out in rows, 3 feet apart, and the 



Morello 



Fruit red, round, heart-shaped. Flesh Plants about 1 foot asunder in the rows. 



watery, inferior to the Mor 



Capronlan, Griotte, Duke, and Morello Cherry. Fl. April. 

 May. Tree 20 feet. 



t !^^ames of cherries not so well hnonn as to be placed in 

 either species or varieties. 



6 AnselVsJine black. 

 9 Black Orleans, 



^ 1 Adlington: 2 Affane. 3 Amhree a gros fruit. 4 Ambree 

 a petit fruit. 5 American heart. 



Bosc. 8 Black American. 9 Black Orleans. 10 Black Spa- 

 ^m. 11 Broughton's early black duke. 12 Bounfs Dantzic 

 cherry. 13 Buttner's herz kirsche. 14 Buttner's October 

 ^mer weichsel. 15 Buttner's sehrspate. 16 Denner's black. 

 ^(Double Natte. 18 Franche. 19 Grosse blanche carree. 

 u^^^ ^^««c/i£f. 21 Hartlib. 22 Native ou precoce. 

 ^3 Hdtive de St. Jean. 24 De Jacap. 25 Leader kirsebcer. 

 9R If^P^^'^ f^^orpel-kirsche. 27 Millet's late heart- duke. 



28 Monstrueuse Hennequine. 29 Muscat de Prague. SO JVew 

 Royal. "- "' 



The succeeding sum- 

 mer they will be fit to bud, if intended for dwarfs ; but if for 

 standards they will require to stand one or more seasons, gener- 

 ally till four years old. They should be budded or grafted near 

 6 feet from the ground ; the usual way is to bud in summer, 

 and graft those which do not succeed the following spring. 



Soil. — The cherry delights in dry sandy soil and elevated 



Situations ; but some sorts, as the May-duke, will thrive in all 



7 Belle soils and aspects, and all the varieties may be planted in a com- 



In Kent, this tree pros- 

 Miller says, tlie soil 



20 



mon mellow garden or orchard ground. 



pers in the deep loam lying on rock. 



which cherries thrive best in, is a fresh hazel loam ; if it be a 



dry gravel they will not live many years, and will be perpetually 



blighted in the spring. 



Site. — To obtain fruit early, some sorts, as the May-duke, 

 are planted against walls ; but all the varieties will do well as 

 dwarfs or espaliers in general situations, and most of them as 

 standards. The May-duke. Nicol observes, does well 



as a 



^endre. 



31 Nouvelle d'Angleterre, cerise guigne. 

 33 Cerise a petit fruit blanc. Si Precoce, 



32 Noyau 

 35 Prince's 



"Are. 36 Black prolific. 37 De Prusse. 38 Rainer^s French seems to acquire flavour. 



May 



standard ; but against a south wall the fruit becomes consider- 

 ably larger, and contrary to what happens in other fruits, it 



cKcY 



Morello 



'y 



39 Remington heart. 

 V Rouge pale tardive. 



f a fruit blanc. 

 45 



40 Rothmelirt Bernstein kirsche. 



flavour when planted against a wall of good aspect. Abercrombie 

 says, " allot to the finest of the early kinds south walls for 



47 



42 Royal tardive, duke cherry. 43 Rus^ 

 44 Thramer^s Muscateller aus Minorka. 

 ll'S^fs JVeisse herz kirsche. 46 Robertson's TradescanVs. for supplies in succession, and some on north walls for the latest 



Turkiiie. 48 TmnQ^nr^^nf A.Q rr/»;//. /r/iMcn/»v/.nA 50 Cc- 



fruit in May and June, train others against west and east walls, 



48 Transparent. 49 White transparent. 

 ^^Qtrochet, commune a trochet, ires fertile. 51 Unique no- 



early unique novelle. 

 54 White Spanish. 55 Winter's schwarze 



Selection of sorts. 

 i May^duke. 



6 Graffion. 7 Turkey heart. 



8 Kensington 



duke 



53 IF T^^ ""''^^^ 

 y^ Welltngton. 



^"^or pel kitsch.. 



Forsyth recommends for a small garden : 



^. ^ . 2 Morello. 3 Archduke. 4 Black heart. 5 



^'gdrreau. 

 cherry, 



Th 

 i ^^se in the Dalkeith garden are: — 1 May-duke, two sorts. 



t^^^^^^on's heart. 3 Black heart. 4 White heart. 5 Amber 

 {L .6 ^lorello. All against walls. ' 

 » ler says the best sorts for an orchard are : the common red 



w^f r''"'*' ?Ae duke cherrij, 

 ""^f are plentiful bearers.'^ 

 ^^^agation. 



ripeners, particularly the Morello, which, so situated, will con- 

 tinue in perfection till September and October ; but it is also 

 52 De Varenne. proper to plant some trees of this sort on south walls, to have 



the fruit ripen earlier, with an improved flavour." 



Final planting. 

 small standards 



Plant full standards from 20 to 30 feet apart ; 

 \5, 18, or 20 feet apart. The proper season 



for planting is from the middle or end of October, or any time 

 in November or December, if open weather, till February or 

 March. Miller says, never plant standard or rider cherry trees 

 over other fruits ; for there is no sort of fruit that will prosper 

 under the drip of cherries. He allows 40 feet square for stan- 

 dards in orchards for the same reason. 



Mode of 



Cherry trees in general produce the fruit 



and the Lukeward's heart ; all of upon small spurs or studs, from half an inch to 2 inches in 



length, which proceed from the side and ends of the two year or 



Varieties of the cherry are continued by graft- 3 year and older branches ; and as nevy sp 



continue shooting 



o or budding on stocks of the black or ivild red cherries, which from the extreme parts, it is a maxim in pruning both standard 



Ka ^^^^^^ growers and of a longer duration than any of the and wall trees, not to shorten the bearing branches where there 



«^^en kinds. The hearts, which are all ill bearers, are some- is room for their regular extension. The Morello is, in some 



sam?^^^^^^ on bird cherry stocks, which are said to have the degree, an exception. , , . 



ue *^Hn«* _. , , . . ,. , , .1 Pruning cherry trees in general. To standards give only an 



^,^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^ occasional pruning to reform or remove any casual irregularity 



^^e graft on the Morello for the^^^ The stones from cross-placed or very crowded branches, and take away all 



"^ cultivated cherries are sometimes, but improperly, sub- cankery and decayed wood. To wall trees a summer pnming 



*Pple ^ Ih ^*^ ^^ ^^^ cherry that the paradise stock has on the 

 Somn r ^^ dwarfing the tree and rendering it more prolific. 



