THE CHERRY HOUSE. 53 
many failures in Cherry growing that I can do nothing 
better than speak thus plainly. Cherry trees are very 
peculiar things to fruit at the rate we might naturally 
expect, according to the show of flowers they always 
make. It is often quite amazing to see what an abun- 
dance of healthy blossom falls from Cherry trees every 
spring, and perhaps not one pound of Cherries can be 
gathered from a tree that would be capable of bearing 
fifty pounds of ripe fruit did the soil suit it. 
Two things seem to be requisite for the Cherry, viz. 
a warm, dry and free air and a free soil; if the former 
is low and abounding with moisture, few or no Cherries 
will be had; if the former condition suits it and the 
soil does not, the same thing will be the result. I have 
tried this in my time and have found it to be correct. 
This brings me to the conclusion that the Cherry likes 
above all things, and can be best grown under, well 
ventilated glass. The soil being suitable, and the 
temperature warm and dry with an abundance of fresh 
air admitted daily during the expansion of the flowers, 
the pollen gets distributed and fertilises the flowers 
more freely than it would do if exposed to the damp 
of our cold nights, whereby it gets glued and cannot 
disperse itself, so that the stigma loses itsenergy. The 
fruit cannot in consequence stone; hence a partial or 
total failure arising from such unfavourable atmospheric 
and subsoil conditions, 
Back-wall cordon-trained trees and pot-culture seem 
to be the proper things for the Cherry. From its peculiar 
tendency to produce an abundance of flowers one can 
easily see that it is particularly adapted for close grow- 
ing either as pot trees or as cordons; what are techni- 
cally called ‘short spurs’ are soon formed on it, which 
