1 80 THE MANAGEMENT OF [CHAP. VII. 



through the skin. The kernel is sweet. Flum 

 trees should be twenty feet apart, if all dwarfs; 

 but dwarfs and riders alternately may be only 

 fifteen feet apart. 



The Cherry. — Only the finer kinds of cher- 

 ries are grown against walls ; and the tree, in 

 its native localities, delights in a dry sandy 

 soil, and an elevated airy situation. When 

 cultivated, it will thrive in any common garden 

 soil that is tolerably open; and it is not injured 

 by manure applied moderately, and in a per- 

 fectly rotten state. The cherry is trained hori- 

 zontally, and bears on spurs springing from 

 both the old and the new wood. As the 

 branches are continually throwing out fresh 

 spurs from their extremities, it is a maxim with 

 o-ardeners never to shorten the bearing- branches 

 of a cherry tree. The morello is, however, an 

 exception to this rule, as its mode of bearing 

 resembles that of the peach ; and it is always 

 pruned and trained like that tree. The cherry 

 trees grown against walls are, the different 

 varieties of May Duke, the Circassian, the 

 Large black Tartarian, the Morello, and Bigar- 

 reau. A curious kind of Chinese cherry is 

 grown occasionally, the fruit of which is about 

 as large as a sparrow's egg, of a reddish amber 

 colour, and furnished at the point with a 

 tumour. Its flavour resembles that of the 

 May Duke. The flowers, which are pinkish, 

 are very ornamental. Cherries need not be 

 more than fifteen feet apart for the common 

 kinds, and twenty feet for the morello. 



Fig trees grow and bear quite well in the 

 neighbourhood of London, and they even 



