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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



from one of these five year old trees, 

 and will give our readers a good idea 

 of its productiveness this season. 

 The fruit is too soft for long ship- 

 ments, but for the amateur we know 

 of no equal to it for cooking pur- 

 poses. 



The bearing habit of the sweet 

 cherries is shown in Fig. 1864, which 

 is a photo of Governor Wood. These 

 trees are very vigorous, upright and 

 spreading in growth and form very 

 large trees. (See fig. 1865.) Governor 

 Wood and Cleveland very much re- 

 semble each other and are of the 

 same origin, but of the two, we 

 think the latter is the finer cherry, 

 both in beauty and in flavor. Fig. 

 1862 shows a branch of Elton cher- 

 ries from one of our five year old 

 trees and for productiveness it cer- 

 tainly leaves nothing to be desired, 

 while Fig. 1861 shows a bunch of 

 Cleveland. Hearts and Bigarreaus 

 are both included under the Sweet 

 Cherry class, and the latter are much 

 the more productive. The Black 

 Tartarian well represents the former, 

 while the Napoleon Bigarreau is a 

 good example of the latter. These 

 often overload and rot badly from 

 contact with each other in wet sea- 

 sons unless sprayed after every rain with Bordeaux mixture. 



Fig. 1867. 



Showing the Bearing Habit of 

 RoYAL Duke. 



Pruning. — In the pruning of pyramidal 

 fruit trees of all sorts care should be taken 

 to encourage the formation of natural fruit 

 spurs in preference to artificial ones ; this 

 is the rock on which many a young gardener 

 and amateur has split by following the or- 

 thodox system of summer-pinching, as it is 

 called. If a free growth is allowed during 

 the summer and the branches kept thin, ad- 

 mitting the free circulation of sun and air 

 among them, the wood will ripen properly, 



and at the base of every leaf a bud is formed 

 which will ultimately become a natural fruit 

 spur. In the case of some varieties, such 

 as the Jargonelle and Williams' Bon Chre- 

 tien Pears, it will be found that the terminal 

 bud of one year's growth will be a fruit or 

 bloom bud ; in such a case it will be advisa- 

 ble to pinch it out, which will strengthen 

 the side buds, and in the following year they 

 will become natural fruit spurs. — Journal of 

 Horticulture. 



