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above the medium size, ripens early, 

 shortly after the May Duke. The flesh 

 is tender, abounding in luscious juice ; 

 skin pale yellow, with a blush on the sun- 

 ny side. The tree is of strong growth, 

 and on that account additionally en- 

 titled to our regard." — Rural Reg. 



Late Duke. Pom. Mag. : Thomp. 

 {June Duke of Coxe. Shippen Cherry.) 

 (Fig. 30.) " This is a valuable variety, 

 similar to its predecessor, the May 

 Duke. It ripens considerably later 

 than it, and has the property of hang- 

 ing long on the tree. The fruit is 

 large, rather flattened ; when fully 

 ripe, rich dark red ; flesh yellow, 

 abounding in juice, scarcely so rich as 

 the May Duke; its habit is robust; 

 bears abundantly. Coxe calls it the 

 most valuable cherry of the season." — 

 Rural Reg. 



Propagation. — Although grafting is 

 sometimes adopted, budding is far pre- 

 ferable. The stock for standards should 

 be the wild cherry, but for dwarfs or 

 walls the mahaleb. If the stones be 

 sown eitlier for stocks or to raise varie- 

 ties, they are best committed to the 

 ground in September. They will vege- 

 tate the following spring, and when one 

 year old are fit for budding if dwarfs 

 are required, but four years usually 

 elapse before they attain the height of 

 six feet, required for standards. 



Walls. — No fruit is more improved 

 by a good aspect than the cherry. Allot 

 a south wail to the best sorts, and east 

 and west for succession. The Morello 

 will be productive on a north wall, but on 

 a south wall it is very superior fruit. No 

 garden should be without one so grown. 



Wall pruning. — In May or June dis- 

 bud all unnecessary and foreright shoots. 

 Train in the best-placed, lateral and 

 terminal shoots as required. When the 

 leaves have fallen, prune away all ir- 

 regular, unproductive branches, train- 

 ing in their place first laterals. Never 

 shorten a shoot unless absolutely requi- 

 site from want of space, much less 

 prune so as to have numerous foreright 

 spurs. All cherries bear upon very 

 short studs with a terminal bud, on the 

 branches from two years old and up- 

 wards. The Morello bears chiefly on 

 the previous year's shoots, and very 

 scantily on studs of the older branches. 

 The Morello, therefore, requires the 

 older laterals to be removed as often as 

 their placea can-be supplied by young 



shoots. All studs and foreright shoots 

 should be removed, especially from the 

 Morello. 



Diseases. — The leaves are liable to be 

 honey-dewed, especially in ill-drained 

 soils; but gumming is the most weaken- 

 ing disease. (See Honey-dew and Ex- 

 travasated sap.) 



The Aphis cerasi, a black species, and 

 the red spider, sometimes attack the 

 cherry on walls; and a still rarer enemy 

 is described as follows, by Mr. Nai- 

 smith: — 



"Our cherry trees, both in the open air 

 and on the natural walls, particularly the 

 tops of the young shoots, are much at- 

 tacked with a small black insect, provin- 

 cially called the black beetle. The 

 remedy I have found most effectual for 

 their destruction is a mixture of pitch 

 with one-sixteenth part of powdered 

 orpiment; one-sixteenth part ofsulphur, 

 dissolved over a slow fire in an earthen 

 pipkin, until they be well incorporated; 

 when cold, divide into small pieces, 

 about the size of a hen's egg, and burn 

 it under the trees with damp straw, di- 

 recting the smoke as much as possible 

 where the insects are most numerous. 

 In an hour afterwards, (if the state of 

 the fruit will admit,) give the trees a 

 good washing with the garden engine, 

 which generally clears oft" the half dead 

 beetles, and prevents the spreading of 

 the red spider." — Enc. Gard. 



Forcing. — Mr. G. Shills, of Erskine 

 House Gardens, says: — " For accelera- 

 ting the ripening of cherries, I prefer the 

 open flued wall. The cherries setting 

 well without artificial assistance, and 

 ripening in succession from the latter 

 end of April till the latter end of June or 

 beginning of July, and with sufficient 

 rapidity to supply a family with a dish 

 daily during that period. About the 

 middle of February, or when the buds 

 naturally begin to swell, a little fire-heat 

 is supplied in the evening and in dull 

 cloudy weather, kept up during the day; 

 but in bright sunshine the fire is stopped 

 about nine or ten A. M., and set on again 

 about two P. M. This practice is fol- 

 lowed until the middle or Ijtter end of 

 May, when the fire-heat is discontinued. 



"A little before the expansion of the 

 blossom, which is about the beginning 

 of March, the net is put over the tree, 

 by fixing the upper side of it on nails 

 fastened in the joints of the coping near 

 the edge, and the under side is tied to 



