REMARKS ON BARK-BOUND CHERRY TREES. 



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The trees, therefore, are not as capable 

 of enduring our sudden changes of climate 

 as they would be, were they grown only 

 about three and a half to four feet the first 

 season, — forming a close fine grained wood, 

 well ripened. That a close grained, well 

 ripened wood endures our climate best, is | 

 allowed by all ; and is proved, by a notice | 

 of such trees as the Elm, Maple and Seckel, 

 or most natural pear trees, contrasted with 

 the Ailanthus, Willow, and many other 

 rapid growing varieties. 



That peeling the outer corticle of a tree 

 entire, may not produce a healthv plant out 

 of one diseased from its birth I do not as- 

 sert ; but as yet, I am not inclined to such 

 belief. I regard the tree so diseased from j 

 its infancy, that if left to continue where ; 

 first grown, or transplanted to even a richer 

 or poorer soil six years — nay, often two 

 years will not have passed without the evi- 

 dence of over feeding in youth showing 

 itself, by bursting of the sap vessels and 

 exudation of its sap ; this as often upon the 

 north side of the tree as upon the south, 

 caused, not directly by the hot sun, but 

 mainly from the coarse spongy nature and 

 early habit of the tree, easily acted upon 

 by sudden changes of temperature. 



If we advance the idea that some varie- 

 ties are more hardy than others, that some 

 will endure our climate when others will 

 not, we should certainly attempt to build 

 our support upon the evidence given by 

 such trees as were of close grained wood, 

 and moderate growers from the first. These 

 may be found in the Dukes and Morellos ; 

 the Belle de Choisy and May Duke being 

 rarely complained of as affected by the 

 bursting of the sap, although of late I 

 have heard of two instances of the lat- 

 ter variety, both however traced to the 

 fact of being upon sucker stocks, and 

 having been excessively stimulated during 



their first year's growth, afterward in good 

 strong soil. 



The "fire-blight," or "frozen sap-blight," 

 in the pear, is rarely found in the Doyenne 

 or Seckel, but often upon the Bartlett and 

 Dutchess d'Angouleme, and it is argued by 

 writers to be induced from the rapid growth 

 and spongy texture of wood in the latter 

 varieties. So, why not this bursting of 

 bark in the cherry, be attributed to the 

 same cause ? 



The pear, in " frozen-sap-blight," does 

 not exude a gum, because such is not its 

 nature ; but its blackened appearance upon 

 the body often coincides with that upon 

 the cherry, and have by the writer been 

 removed in the same way. 



To support my own views, of the neces- 

 sity of trees being not too much stimu- 

 lated in early growth, I have examined in 

 other's grounds, and have those in my own 

 grounds — those that were grown slowly, 

 say not over four feet the first season, in 

 close proximity to others that were grown 

 some eight feet the first year from bud. 

 The result as yet has been, that while, of 

 the trees grown slowly at first, as many 

 are of the rapid growing varieties, as among 

 those grown rapidly the first year; yet 

 those of early slow growth have hardly 

 shown any exhibition of bark bursting, 

 while the others have abounded yearly in 

 blackened spots, and bursting bark, and 

 when cured in one place upon the body, has 

 shown itself in others, and at last among 

 the larger limbs. 



That peeling the outer corticle entire, 

 may not aid the tree for a time when so 

 diseased, I may not now say; but that it 

 will promote it from a sickly to a healthy 

 tree, I doubt. And if it will aid or resus- 

 citate the cherry, why will it not the pear? 



The recommendation to grow the limbs 

 low upon the bodies of trees, is one which 



