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manner as in poaches and nectarines, .r.id may be 

 easily discovered bv an attentive observer. " If 

 anv gum remains, it must, lie says, be cut or 

 scraped off ; the best time for doing which is 

 when it is moistened with rain ; you can then 

 scrape it orl" easily without bruising the bark. 

 I his operation is very necessary ; and it it be 

 neglected the disease will increase rapidly." 

 And wherever the bark or branches have been 

 cut oft", the edges should be rounded, and the 

 Composition applied. 



It is observed that the general way of pruning 

 these trees has been to leave great spurs, which 

 continue to increase till they stand upwards of a 

 foot from the wall, and become as thick as a 

 man's arm : but it must be observed, that cut- 

 ting off from vear to year the shoots that are 

 produced from the spurs, increases the canker, 

 till large protuberances, like wens, are formed 

 an the branches, becoming very unsightly, and 

 these occasion them to produce only small and 

 ill-flavoured fruit at a great distance from each 

 other. When this is the case, the method he 

 pursues is, to head the trees down as before di- 

 rected. 



And if the young shoots are properly trained, 

 they will, he says, produce fruit the following 

 \ear; and in the second year produce more 

 and finer fruit than a young tree that has been 

 planted ten or twelve years. 



The same writer remarks, that " it has been 

 ageneral complaint, that Heart Cherries are bad 

 bearers when trained up as wall-trees; but by 

 pruning them as Duke Cherries, he has brought 

 them to bear in the same manner; that is, he 

 leaves a great manv fore-richt shoots in sum- 

 mer, tuckinsr them in with some small rods rut} 

 across underthe adjoiningbranches, to keep them 

 close to the wall, and prevent them from being 

 broken by the wind, and from looking unsightly. 

 He advises, " never to make use of the knife in 

 summer, if it be possible to avoid it, as the 

 shoots die from the place where they are cut, 

 leaving uglv dead stubs, which will infallibly 

 bring on the canlcer. These shoots may be cut 

 in the spring to about a couple of eyes, as Duke 

 Cherries, which will forin a number of flower- 

 buds." 



Mr. Forsyth well observes, that " as Cherries 



art a very considerable article of traffic in the 



London markets, and the markets of most 



towns throughout the kingdom, employing such 



a great number of people during the summer 



on in gathering, carrying to market, and 



selling them, the raising of them is certainly 



worth any gentleman's while, especially as the 



trees may be rendered ornamental as well as 



profitable, bv planting them in shrubberies, &c. 



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Gentlemen of small fortunes, who are at a crcat 

 expense with their gardens and plantations, 

 may, he says, in a great measure reimburse 

 themselves by selling their cherries and other 

 fruit (for which there will be plenty of chap- 

 men), and thus enjoy at an easy rate the plea- 

 sures of a rational and useful recreation." And 

 he adds, that " in all parts of the country, there 

 are persons employed in collecting fruit for the 

 markets, and to hawk it about from place to 

 place ; and surely it is much better to sell it to 

 them, than to let it rot on the ground, or be 

 devoured by birds and insects." 



It is advised, " when Cherry-trees begin to 

 produce spurs, to cut out every other shoot 

 to make the tree throw out fresh wood: when 

 that comes into a bearing state, whivh will be 

 in the following year, to cut out the old branches 

 that remain ; by that method you will be able 

 to keep the trees in a constant state of bearing, 

 taking the same method as before directed with 

 the foreright shoots. And great care should, 

 he says, be taken to rub off many of them in 

 the month of May, leaving only such a number 

 as you think will fill the tree. By so doing 

 your trees will continue in a fine healthy state, 

 and not be in the least weakened by bearing a 

 plentiful crop of fruit. The reason is obvious : 

 the great exhalation which would be occasioned 

 by the sun and air in the common mode of 

 pruning is prevented, by the Composition keep- 

 ing in the sap which nourishes the branches and 

 fruit." 



He adds, that he " cut some trees, as directed 

 above, more than twelve years a^o, that are 

 now in as good a state of bearing as they were 

 in the third year after the operation, and likely 

 to continue so for manv years." 



He states that " a row of Dwarf Cherry-trees 

 that stood against an old paling, with an old 

 thorn hedge at the back of it, (which every year 

 so infected them with a blight, accompanied bv 

 an immense number of caterpillars and other 

 insects, that even in a fine year they could not 

 gather eight baskets from the whole row) be- 

 came so fruitful after the hedge and paling were 

 removed, that they gathered forty -two pounds 

 a-day for six successive weeks, besides what the 

 birds, wasps, and flics destroyed. He mentions 

 the fact to stimulate market-gardeners and farm- 

 ers, who have large orchards and gardens, to 

 exert themselves in trying every method, how- 

 ever unimportant it may at first appear, to im- 

 prove and render them more fruitful, and 

 concludes, that the Duke and Heart Cherries 

 from these trees were as fine as any that were 

 produced from wall-trees. And, as they are 

 much more productive, he has been induced 

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